Mac Tip Of The Day: More specific Spotlight searches. ~ Ask The Admin

Monday, March 03, 2008

Mac Tip Of The Day: More specific Spotlight searches.

More specific Spotlight searches for our Mac friends! Spotlight searches are sometimes not as good as they should be, especially if you have a lot of files with similar names.

It is possible to narrow your results down by specifying the type of file you are looking for by adding "kind:type of file".

Here is an example showing a search of all the applications that contain "itu":


This should bring you right to itunes's application even if you have other files that contain Itune in the file name. Very Handy.


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