Aqua Taskforce

Doneko wrote on August 15, 2008, 3:19am

The enclosing folder is a major missing information in the search results.

abitgone wrote on September 8, 2008, 9:04am

In 10.5? Nope... you should be able to see a breadcrumbs bar at the bottom of the finder window which shows you the path to the file. Alternatively, just right click/ctrl-click the file in the results window and click "Open Enclosing Folder".

MicrowaveDave wrote on December 28, 2008, 8:32pm

Also 10.4 and 10.5 now can't sort search results by path, size, labels, filetype, creation date and doesn't display a tree view of where things are stored. To view the path of a file I have to click on then hover over the breadcrumbs bar (which truncates pathnames and makes them unreadable) for every single search result, which simply doesn't work when you have thousands of files named 'index.html'. And network filename searches are painfully slow. It's actually quicker for me to physically walk to the downstairs Mac, find the file I need and copy it to a USB key then walk back upstairs than it is to find it over the network using Spotlight. 10.3 filename searches are virtually instantaneous so I still use it for the meantime, however very few recent applications still support it. I'll never buy another piece of Apple hardware until a Sherlock 2 style file search is reintroduced, so if 10.6 doesn't fix this, I'll be buying a Windows Vista computer (which has a great search engine) and completely ditching 20 years of Apple loyalty.