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FRASERLUNN - Sep 14, 2005 - 6:01 am

We have recently upgraded to Tiger from Panther. We used to use Panther's Find (Command F) facility to locate archived Quark documents by their textual content. It seems that we are unable to do this using the new Tiger Find engine. It is possible to do a find by content but it only appears to return PDF, HTML and .rtf Documents that I can see. I'm sure there are more file types it can return - but not Quark files.

Is this right or am I just blind to an obvious button or menu command or something?

btw it's a PowerMac G5 running OS 10.4.2

snipper - Sep 14, 2005 - 7:26 am

Hello Fraser,

In the developers notes http://developer.apple.com/macosx/spotlight.html , the possibility of a plug-in is mentioned to add new file types to spotlight. I couldn't find one with Google though.

Regards,
snipper

FRASERLUNN - Sep 14, 2005 - 8:16 am

Thanks snipper

No me neither.

Have sent feedback to Apple but in the meantime the solution we're working on is using Sherlock2 in Classic to search the files. I expect this will work but it'll take another couple of days for Sherlock to index the hard-drive.

Cheers
Fraser

snipper - Sep 14, 2005 - 9:00 am

I can put your question back in the pool or end the thread, what do you want?

FRASERLUNN - Sep 14, 2005 - 9:30 am

Stick it back in the pool and we'll see if anyone comes up with a Tiger solution

Thanks
Fraser

bobw - Sep 14, 2005 - 11:19 am

Hi Fraser

Take a look at EasyFind (free);

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11706
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support

FRASERLUNN - Sep 14, 2005 - 2:11 pm

Thanks Bob

I'll download EasyFind and give it a go.

Cheers
Fraser