• How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?

    From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Thursday, July 01, 2021 20:08:27
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    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Thursday, July 01, 2021 20:09:43
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    Oh and I forgot "How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?" in the body. :)

    In comp.sys.mac.system Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From Bob Campbell@none@none.none to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Thursday, July 01, 2021 23:31:46
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
    to search for anything.

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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Thursday, July 01, 2021 23:46:33
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>, Bob
    Campbell <none@none.none> wrote:

    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
    to search for anything.

    you must not have very many files, or you don't do very much with your computer.
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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Thursday, July 01, 2021 21:34:22
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed
    to search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 06:44:05
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    I think in 15 years of macOS/OS X I've rebuilt spotlight indexes maybe
    4 or 5 times total. I am pretty sure I have not done it under Big Sur or Monterey.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 09:11:51
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    Insecurity?

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30 years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 00:25:12
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-02 12:11 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    Insecurity?

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In
    over 30 years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have
    never needed to search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.

    I don't suffer idiots gladly.

    I'm not sorry about that.

    The simple fact is that his post was completely unhelpful.
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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 11:54:41
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Ah, insecurity it is.

    el

    On 02/07/2021 09:25, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-02 12:11 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    Insecurity?

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In
    over 30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have
    never needed to search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.

    I don't suffer idiots gladly.

    I'm not sorry about that.

    The simple fact is that his post was completely unhelpful.

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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 07:37:20
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ik7shnFpb6nU2@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    he didn't insult anyone. what he said is an accurate description,
    assuming the post is not trollbait.

    Insecurity?

    no.

    and don't top post.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30 >> years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to >> search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 08:39:55
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):

    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I’ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is
    usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems with a search?

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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 08:46:47
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
    (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
    to search for anything.

    Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine, and have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in all that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find
    files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?

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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 16:22:07
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    el

    On 02/07/2021 13:37, nospam wrote:
    In article <ik7shnFpb6nU2@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    he didn't insult anyone. what he said is an accurate description,
    assuming the post is not trollbait.

    Insecurity?

    no.

    and don't top post.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30
    years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to >>>> search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.


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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 11:12:40
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    not when the word is appropriate and accurately describes someone, such
    as when a person intentionally, deliberately and blatantly violates
    usenet posting etiquette by top posting, especially after repeatedly
    being told to not do that in numerous threads.

    A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
    Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
    A: Top-posting.
    Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail and USENET?


    el

    On 02/07/2021 13:37, nospam wrote:
    In article <ik7shnFpb6nU2@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    he didn't insult anyone. what he said is an accurate description,
    assuming the post is not trollbait.

    Insecurity?

    no.

    and don't top post.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30
    years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to >>>> search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 16:41:39
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <0001HW.268F42370BECC43F7000098EA38F@news.supernews.com> Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
    (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
    to search for anything.

    Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine, and
    have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in all
    that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?

    Agreed. Spotlight is a great tool.

    $ DF
    Drobo
    CPCTY: 14.3619 TB
    AVAIL: 2.75545 TB
    Local
    CPCTY: 39.9932 TB
    AVAIL: 20.1888 TB

    In addition to that, I have another 30TB of network storage mounted, and
    that is also spotlight indexed. I'd never find anything without it, or
    at least it would take me a lot longer (hours).

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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 16:48:01
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    And yet, it is also an accurate description of someone who claims to
    have "never used search ever" or the other option, your use of a
    computer is trivial.

    I know someone who has never used search on her computer either. She is
    an accountant. She runs two programs on her computer, and only two.
    Google Chrome and her accounting software (whatever Peachtree became
    when it was Borged). She has no need of search because the only data on
    her computer is the accounting files. (Literally the only data, no
    music, photos, videos, documents, nothing).

    Your insistence on top-posting lends credence to the 'idiot'
    possibility.

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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 16:49:19
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

    --
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 13:14:41
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsdugq1.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    And yet, it is also an accurate description of someone who claims to
    have "never used search ever" or the other option, your use of a
    computer is trivial.

    yep

    I know someone who has never used search on her computer either. She is
    an accountant. She runs two programs on her computer, and only two.
    Google Chrome and her accounting software (whatever Peachtree became
    when it was Borged). She has no need of search because the only data on
    her computer is the accounting files. (Literally the only data, no
    music, photos, videos, documents, nothing).

    she might not need to search for photos or whatever on her computer,
    but certainly she must have searched for stuff online using a search
    engine in chrome and likely searched for specific transactions or
    client data in the accounting software.

    Your insistence on top-posting lends credence to the 'idiot'
    possibility.

    it guarantees it.
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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 14:18:12
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 02, Lewis wrote
    (in article <slrnsdugsf.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>):

    In message<ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

    oh, there’s no doubt but that Ebie is a troll.

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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 15:26:39
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>,
    ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    EasyFind has always been a much better (and more useful) alternative for
    me. I'm only on El Capitan though and I'm not sure if it's still being developed for later systems (probably isn't).

    I found Spotlight so obnoxious on earlier systems (like Tiger which I
    still use very often) I installed the shareware app Spotless to kill it.

    Thankfully Spotlight isn't as annoying with its automatic rebuilds in El
    Cap.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 02, 2021 17:29:36
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):

    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems with a search?

    Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents. Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 01:43:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <020720211314417195%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsdugq1.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    And yet, it is also an accurate description of someone who claims to
    have "never used search ever" or the other option, your use of a
    computer is trivial.

    yep

    I know someone who has never used search on her computer either. She is
    an accountant. She runs two programs on her computer, and only two.
    Google Chrome and her accounting software (whatever Peachtree became
    when it was Borged). She has no need of search because the only data on
    her computer is the accounting files. (Literally the only data, no
    music, photos, videos, documents, nothing).

    she might not need to search for photos or whatever on her computer,
    but certainly she must have searched for stuff online using a search
    engine in chrome and likely searched for specific transactions or
    client data in the accounting software.

    I was thinking of the ;search; comparable to spotlight.

    Your insistence on top-posting lends credence to the 'idiot'
    possibility.

    it guarantees it.

    Yeah, I binned the idiot.

    --
    Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them
    are stupider than that.
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:27:40
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    I was expecting you to come in with your usual unhelpful comments in
    fecal language.

    On 2021-07-02 18:49 , Lewis wrote:
    In message <ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:28:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Who's Ebie?

    el

    On 2021-07-02 20:18 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Lewis wrote
    (in article <slrnsdugsf.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>):

    In message<ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

    oh, there’s no doubt but that Ebie is a troll.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:28:32
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    And don't insult.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 13:37 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ik7shnFpb6nU2@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    he didn't insult anyone. what he said is an accurate description,
    assuming the post is not trollbait.

    Insecurity?

    no.

    and don't top post.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30
    years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to >>>> search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:33:15
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    One idiots's free speech is another's crimen injuria.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 17:12 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    not when the word is appropriate and accurately describes someone, such
    as when a person intentionally, deliberately and blatantly violates
    usenet posting etiquette by top posting, especially after repeatedly
    being told to not do that in numerous threads.

    [...] Q/A intentionally deleted.

    el

    On 02/07/2021 13:37, nospam wrote:
    In article <ik7shnFpb6nU2@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Where does the need to insult people come from?

    he didn't insult anyone. what he said is an accurate description,
    assuming the post is not trollbait.

    Insecurity?

    no.

    and don't top post.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 06:34 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-01 8:31 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never.   I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows.  In over 30
    years of using computers - at home and at work -  I have never needed to
    search for anything.


    Then you're an idiot or your use of computers is trivial.
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:39:50
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    And yet you still are unable to follow through on your announce having
    plunked me and yet you can't resist being trolled. Other than that,
    what overweight script kiddies living in their parents' basements do
    don't concern me much.

    The only thing I search in is my mail archive (in a MySQL Data base)
    going back 1o 1999 (I lost the 20 years before that).

    For Spotlight I turned off everything by Applications in the
    Preferences because the SOftware Update depends on it, but I haven't
    had the need for Spotlight search of files ever.

    I use find on the command line with its options which existed before
    MacOS and will probably survive it.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 18:48 , Lewis wrote:
    In message <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    And yet, it is also an accurate description of someone who claims to
    have "never used search ever" or the other option, your use of a
    computer is trivial.

    I know someone who has never used search on her computer either. She
    is an accountant. She runs two programs on her computer, and only
    two. Google Chrome and her accounting software (whatever Peachtree
    became when it was Borged). She has no need of search because the
    only data on her computer is the accounting files. (Literally the
    only data, no music, photos, videos, documents, nothing).

    Your insistence on top-posting lends credence to the 'idiot'
    possibility.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:40:42
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Yes you binned and plunked me and yet you can't resist.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 03:43 , Lewis wrote:
    In message <020720211314417195%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsdugq1.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis
    <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <ik8lofFu4fnU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    In most cultures the word idiot is frowned upon in conversation.

    And yet, it is also an accurate description of someone who claims to
    have "never used search ever" or the other option, your use of a
    computer is trivial.

    yep

    I know someone who has never used search on her computer either. She is
    an accountant. She runs two programs on her computer, and only two.
    Google Chrome and her accounting software (whatever Peachtree became
    when it was Borged). She has no need of search because the only data on
    her computer is the accounting files. (Literally the only data, no
    music, photos, videos, documents, nothing).

    she might not need to search for photos or whatever on her computer,
    but certainly she must have searched for stuff online using a search
    engine in chrome and likely searched for specific transactions or
    client data in the accounting software.

    I was thinking of the ;search; comparable to spotlight.

    Your insistence on top-posting lends credence to the 'idiot'
    possibility.

    it guarantees it.

    Yeah, I binned the idiot.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:50:18
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    2>/dev/null \
    | grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    | sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    |awk '{print $2}' \
    |sed 's/;//g' \
    |sort -u \
    |grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    el

    On 2021-07-02 14:46 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
    (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
    to search for anything.

    Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine, and have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in all that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?

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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 08:48:23
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
    (in article <ikahsbFahfgU3@mid.individual.net>):

    Who's Ebie?

    that’d be you, Ebie.

    Your continual top-posting is one of the marks of the more idiotic trolls. Your inability to make interesting posts is another. Keep it up and you’ll be killfiled.


    el

    On 2021-07-02 20:18 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Lewis wrote
    (in article <slrnsdugsf.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>):

    In message<ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

    oh, there’s no doubt but that Ebie is a troll.


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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 08:49:00
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
    (in article <ikahrcFahfgU2@mid.individual.net>):


    I was expecting you to come in with your usual unhelpful comments in
    fecal language.

    yep, you’re a troll.


    On 2021-07-02 18:49 , Lewis wrote:
    In message<ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.


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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 08:51:24
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
    (in article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>):


    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    /dev/null \
    grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    awk '{print $2}' \
    sed 's/;//g' \
    sort -u \
    grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    el

    going to a lot of trouble writing scripts vs just using the built in search feature... decisions, decisions.

    giving a damn about a troll’s opinions... hmm, nope.

    Say bye, Ebie. You’re about to be plonked.


    On 2021-07-02 14:46 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
    (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed to search for anything.

    Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine, and
    have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in all
    that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?


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  • From Wolffan@akwolffan@zoho.com to comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 09:01:29
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021 Jul 02, Ant wrote
    (in article<bZGdnUE8CMjNDkL9nZ2dnUU7-I9j4p2d@earthlink.com>):

    In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):

    It seems I have to do it monthly (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt
    the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems
    with a search?

    Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents. Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(

    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    2 check your system; Spotlight isn’t supposed to lose files unless
    there’s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there’s a hardware problem, and you need a new drive.

    Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It’s a sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 15:28:57
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-03, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Ant wrote
    (in article<bZGdnUE8CMjNDkL9nZ2dnUU7-I9j4p2d@earthlink.com>):
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt
    the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install
    usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is
    usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems
    with a search?

    Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents.
    Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(

    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    2 check your system; Spotlight isn’t supposed to lose files unless there’s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC
    or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a
    full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there’s a hardware problem, and you need a new drive.

    Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It’s a sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

    Yep. Something is definitely wrong.

    --
    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR
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  • From Fishrrman@Fishrrman2000@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 03, 2021 12:14:22
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly

    Answer here: NEVER.
    One of the first things I do with all my Macs is to DISABLE
    Spotlight and never use it, ever.

    I use "EasyFind" and "Find Any File" when I need to "search"
    for something...
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 12:59:27
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ikaht1FahfgU4@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    And don't insult.

    if you're going to ask others to not insult, it's a good idea to not do
    so yourself.

    In article <ikaii8FalpoU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    And yet you still are unable to follow through on your announce having plunked me and yet you can't resist being trolled. Other than that,
    what overweight script kiddies living in their parents' basements do
    don't concern me much.

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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 12:59:28
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    2>/dev/null \
    | grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    | sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    |awk '{print $2}' \
    |sed 's/;//g' \
    |sort -u \
    |grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.

    even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.

    you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
    when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script kiddie
    would laugh at.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
    *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and fundamentally broken.

    the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way around.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting your
    ability to effectively search.
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 03, 2021 12:59:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <sbq2cu$ofu$1@dont-email.me>, Fishrrman
    <Fishrrman2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

    One of the first things I do with all my Macs is to DISABLE
    Spotlight and never use it, ever.

    that will break a lot of things.
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 21:29:50
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Wolfgang,

    my name name is not Ebie.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 14:48 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
    (in article <ikahsbFahfgU3@mid.individual.net>):

    Who's Ebie?

    that’d be you, Ebie.

    Your continual top-posting is one of the marks of the more idiotic trolls. Your inability to make interesting posts is another. Keep it up and you’ll be killfiled.


    el

    On 2021-07-02 20:18 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Lewis wrote
    (in article <slrnsdugsf.qb9.g.kreme@m1mini.local>):

    In message<ik8631Fr6jvU1@mid.individual.net> Dr Eberhard Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Ah, insecurity it is.

    You are a troll shit and I claim my £5.

    oh, there’s no doubt but that Ebie is a troll.


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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 21:30:31
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Agreed. This is why I don't do it.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaht1FahfgU4@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    And don't insult.

    if you're going to ask others to not insult, it's a good idea to not do
    so yourself.

    In article <ikaii8FalpoU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    And yet you still are unable to follow through on your announce having
    plunked me and yet you can't resist being trolled. Other than that,
    what overweight script kiddies living in their parents' basements do
    don't concern me much.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 21:31:12
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    I am so impressed by the wannabe plonkers.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 14:51 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
    (in article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>):


    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    /dev/null \
    grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    awk '{print $2}' \
    sed 's/;//g' \
    sort -u \
    grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    el

    going to a lot of trouble writing scripts vs just using the built in search feature... decisions, decisions.

    giving a damn about a troll’s opinions... hmm, nope.

    Say bye, Ebie. You’re about to be plonked.


    On 2021-07-02 14:46 , Wolffan wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
    (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
    30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed >>>> to search for anything.

    Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine, >>> and
    have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network
    connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in >>> all
    that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find
    files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend >>> moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?


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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 21:41:08
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    Aha.

    Besides that I did not say either was a good idea, or easy to maintain,
    both do the job. The former isn't even my own idea, comes from the
    TextMate Support Group, but you of course can easily find the scopenames
    of all installed TextMate2 bundles with Spotlight.

    And you can easily find in Spotlight the CPAM modules used in all Perl
    scripts other then the ones in Library Downloads and the CPAN modules
    itself, of course.

    It takes no effort whatsoever to maintain, in particular since there is
    no need to maintain.

    But then why am I explaining myself to children when I could rather
    troll them?

    el

    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    2>/dev/null \
    | grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    | sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    |awk '{print $2}' \
    |sed 's/;//g' \
    |sort -u \
    |grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.

    even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.

    you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
    when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script
    kiddie would laugh at.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
    *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and fundamentally broken.

    the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way
    around.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting
    your ability to effectively search.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 03, 2021 21:43:57
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless
    this is not a required feature.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 18:14 , Fishrrman wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly

    Answer here: NEVER.
    One of the first things I do with all my Macs is to DISABLE Spotlight
    and never use it, ever.

    I use "EasyFind" and "Find Any File" when I need to "search" for
    something...
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  • From TimS@timstreater@greenbee.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 03, 2021 19:59:18
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless
    this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?

    --
    Tim
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 03, 2021 17:20:06
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ikbsqmFil63U1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Aha.

    Besides that I did not say either was a good idea, or easy to maintain,
    both do the job. The former isn't even my own idea, comes from the
    TextMate Support Group, but you of course can easily find the scopenames
    of all installed TextMate2 bundles with Spotlight.

    it doesn't do the job, nor can it. it's fundamentally broken, along
    with being slow and inefficient at what little it does do.

    the real problem is you have *no* clue as to why that is.

    And you can easily find in Spotlight the CPAM modules used in all Perl scripts other then the ones in Library Downloads and the CPAN modules
    itself, of course.

    It takes no effort whatsoever to maintain, in particular since there is
    no need to maintain.

    it takes quite a bit of effort, by your own admission:
    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.



    But then why am I explaining myself to children when I could rather
    troll them?

    what were you saying about not insulting?

    In article <ikbs6oFig77U3@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaht1FahfgU4@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    And don't insult.

    if you're going to ask others to not insult, it's a good idea to not do
    so yourself.

    Agreed. This is why I don't do it.

    top posting fixed.

    not only do you continue to insult, but your trolling skills suck and
    you are a liar.




    el

    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    2>/dev/null \
    | grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    | sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    |awk '{print $2}' \
    |sed 's/;//g' \
    |sort -u \
    |grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.

    even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.

    you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
    when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script
    kiddie would laugh at.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
    *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and fundamentally broken.

    the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way
    around.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting
    your ability to effectively search.

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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 03, 2021 17:20:08
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <ikbtsmFir7bU1@mid.individual.net>, TimS
    <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?

    updates should not be loose. the bits fall out and go everywhere.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, July 04, 2021 00:40:53
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <sbq2cu$ofu$1@dont-email.me> Fishrrman <Fishrrman2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly

    Answer here: NEVER.
    One of the first things I do with all my Macs is to DISABLE
    Spotlight and never use it, ever.

    Well, that is simply dumb.

    I use "EasyFind" and "Find Any File" when I need to "search"
    for something...

    Much much slower and less effective. Orders of magnitude slower.

    --
    "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system
    of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently
    nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic
    gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this
    for some time, and a last said: "A fish!"
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Sunday, July 04, 2021 03:17:02
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.apps Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2021-07-03, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Ant wrote
    (in article<bZGdnUE8CMjNDkL9nZ2dnUU7-I9j4p2d@earthlink.com>):
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt
    the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install
    usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is >> > usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems
    with a search?

    Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents.
    Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(

    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    2 check your system; Spotlight isn???t supposed to lose files unless there???s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC
    or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both
    backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a
    full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there???s a hardware problem, and
    you need a new drive.

    Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It???s a sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

    Yep. Something is definitely wrong.

    Yeah, I need to figure out what is wrong since it happened again late
    last night after reindexing a few days ago. It was not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder (almost 1,700 files and 16
    GB). 2020 Intel MacBook Pro's Disk Utility app found nothing wrong.
    Reboot didn't help. :(
    --
    Will 2021 repeat 2020? :(
    Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
    /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org.
    / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Sunday, July 04, 2021 03:18:41
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.apps Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2021-07-03, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 02, Ant wrote
    (in article<bZGdnUE8CMjNDkL9nZ2dnUU7-I9j4p2d@earthlink.com>):
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
    (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all >>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in >>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt
    the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install
    usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is >> > usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.

    Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems
    with a search?

    Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents.
    Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(

    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    2 check your system; Spotlight isn???t supposed to lose files unless there???s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC
    or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both
    backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a
    full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there???s a hardware problem, and
    you need a new drive.

    Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It???s a sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

    Yep. Something is definitely wrong.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/obzjzz/how_often_do_you_rebuild_your_macos_big_sur_v11s/h3r287c/ has the same issue. The user says reboot fixes it, but not for my client and me.
    --
    Will 2021 repeat 2020? :(
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, July 05, 2021 00:13:50
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Aha.

    Another wannabe.

    el


    On 2021-07-03 23:20 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikbsqmFil63U1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Aha.

    Besides that I did not say either was a good idea, or easy to maintain,
    both do the job. The former isn't even my own idea, comes from the
    TextMate Support Group, but you of course can easily find the scopenames
    of all installed TextMate2 bundles with Spotlight.

    it doesn't do the job, nor can it. it's fundamentally broken, along
    with being slow and inefficient at what little it does do.

    the real problem is you have *no* clue as to why that is.

    And you can easily find in Spotlight the CPAM modules used in all Perl
    scripts other then the ones in Library Downloads and the CPAN modules
    itself, of course.

    It takes no effort whatsoever to maintain, in particular since there is
    no need to maintain.

    it takes quite a bit of effort, by your own admission:
    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.



    But then why am I explaining myself to children when I could rather
    troll them?

    what were you saying about not insulting?

    In article <ikbs6oFig77U3@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaht1FahfgU4@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
    And don't insult.

    if you're going to ask others to not insult, it's a good idea to not do
    so yourself.

    Agreed. This is why I don't do it.

    top posting fixed.

    not only do you continue to insult, but your trolling skills suck and
    you are a liar.




    el

    On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
    In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    I find files like so:

    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
    -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
    -exec bash -c '
    tput bold;
    echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
    tput sgr0;
    echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
    then
    for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
    do
    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
    then
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
    "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
    2>/dev/null \
    | grep -v "[\{\}]";
    fi;
    done;
    fi)' \; \
    | sort -f

    or

    find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
    -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
    -name '*.pl' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
    |awk '{print $2}' \
    |sed 's/;//g' \
    |sort -u \
    |grep -v \
    -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
    -e ^and \
    -e ^Apache \
    -e ^base \
    -e ^bytes \
    -e ^constant \
    -e ^experimental \
    -e ^feature \
    -e ^fields \
    -e ^hasn \
    -e ^lib \
    -e ^open \
    -e ^routines. \
    -e ^strict \
    -e ^subs \
    -e ^sysread \
    -e ^use \
    -e ^vars \
    -e ^version \
    -e ^warnings \
    -e ^when

    for example.

    looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.

    even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.

    you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
    when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script
    kiddie would laugh at.

    I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
    oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
    for large scale file shifting.

    what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
    *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and
    fundamentally broken.

    the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way
    around.

    I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
    either.

    you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting
    your ability to effectively search.

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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 05, 2021 00:15:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    My understanding is that Sftware Update doesn't work if you
    remove Applications from SPolight.

    el

    On 2021-07-03 21:59 , TimS wrote:
    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless
    this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?

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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, July 04, 2021 15:18:34
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-04 3:15 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    My understanding is that Sftware Update doesn't work if you
    remove Applications from SPolight.

    Your understanding based on...

    ...what?


    el

    On 2021-07-03 21:59 , TimS wrote:
    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>
    wrote:

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless
    this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?


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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 05, 2021 10:59:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.


    el

    On 05/07/2021 00:18, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-04 3:15 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    My understanding is that Sftware Update doesn't work if you
    remove Applications from SPolight.

    Your understanding based on...

    ...what?


    el

    On 2021-07-03 21:59 , TimS wrote:
    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update, unless >>>> this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?




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  • From J Burns@burns@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, July 05, 2021 16:46:08
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    Now that I read your message again, it rings a bell. Years ago, I
    started using OpenOffice. The default for text files is .ODT.

    I discovered that Spotlight wouldn't always find ODT files whose content contained the search term. For some reason, if I rebuilt Spotlight, it
    would show some of the ODT files with the term.

    I used to know how to view the components of an ODT file. I wish I knew
    how to do it now. It saves the text as a ZIP file. DOCX also uses ZIP. Evidently, Spotlight normally ignores ZIP files.

    For years, I hoped this would be fixed in an OS update. If Apple hasn't
    fixed it, I should.

    Will EasyFind search contents of ZIP files? If there's no way to search
    them, I need to convert ODT files to another format. What's a good
    searchable format for word processor documents?
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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, July 05, 2021 14:03:49
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    Now that I read your message again, it rings a bell. Years ago, I
    started using OpenOffice. The default for text files is .ODT.

    I discovered that Spotlight wouldn't always find ODT files whose content contained the search term. For some reason, if I rebuilt Spotlight, it
    would show some of the ODT files with the term.

    I used to know how to view the components of an ODT file. I wish I knew
    how to do it now. It saves the text as a ZIP file.  DOCX also uses ZIP. Evidently, Spotlight normally ignores ZIP files.

    For years, I hoped this would be fixed in an OS update. If Apple hasn't fixed it, I should.

    Will EasyFind search contents of ZIP files? If there's no way to search them, I need to convert ODT files to another format. What's a good searchable format for word processor documents?

    'LibreOffice comes with a Spotlight importer in its bundle. You can
    confirm this with the following terminal command:


    /usr/bin/mdimport -L


    , which lists available importers and included in this list should be:



    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.
    mdimporter"'

    <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7484775>

    And running "mdimport -L" on my own system shows:

    '"/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",

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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 05, 2021 14:07:09
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-05 1:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.

    How did you remove Applications from Spotlight...

    ...and for goodness sake... ...WHY?



    el

    On 05/07/2021 00:18, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-04 3:15 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    My understanding is that Sftware Update doesn't work if you
    remove Applications from SPolight.

    Your understanding based on...

    ...what?


    el

    On 2021-07-03 21:59 , TimS wrote:
    On 03 Jul 2021 at 20:43:57 BST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
    <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:

    Leave the Applications enabled or you loose the Software Update,
    unless
    this is not a required feature.

    On whom would he be loosing it?





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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 01:05:39
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    Klicking it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results

    Experimenting.

    el

    On 2021-07-05 23:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.

    How did you remove Applications from Spotlight...

    ...and for goodness sake... ...WHY?
    [...]
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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 05, 2021 16:07:50
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-05 4:05 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

    Klicking it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results

    Experimenting.

    el

    On 2021-07-05 23:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.

    How did you remove Applications from Spotlight...

    ...and for goodness sake... ...WHY?
    [...]

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 01:25:55
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    The words Klicking and Experimenting would imply I actually did that.

    A few years (OS versions ago). SInce then I turn everything but Applications off.

    el

    On 2021-07-06 01:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 4:05 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

    Klicking it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results

    Experimenting.

    el

    On 2021-07-05 23:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.

    How did you remove Applications from Spotlight...

    ...and for goodness sake... ...WHY?
    [...]

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 05, 2021 17:19:39
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-05 4:25 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    The words Klicking and Experimenting would imply I actually did that.

    And the fact that you didn't answer directly would suggest that you didn't.


    A few years (OS versions ago). SInce then I turn everything but
    Applications
    off.

    el

    On 2021-07-06 01:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 4:05 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

    Klicking it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results

    Experimenting.

    el

    On 2021-07-05 23:07 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Having removed Applications from Spotlight.

    How did you remove Applications from Spotlight...

    ...and for goodness sake... ...WHY?
    [...]

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?



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  • From bje@bje@ripco.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 10:01:53
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


    He's not correct anyways.

    I've had everything (yes, everything) deselected in Spotlight for the past
    few years and I still get periodic software update notifications.

    Turning everything off only disables the command-spacebar search from doing anything, which is fine because I never found a practical use for that and really only need to find file names, which still works fine with the finder search.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com
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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 12:40:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    OS or Apps?

    el

    On 06/07/2021 12:01, bje@ripco.com wrote:
    Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


    He's not correct anyways.

    I've had everything (yes, everything) deselected in Spotlight for the past few years and I still get periodic software update notifications.

    Turning everything off only disables the command-spacebar search from doing anything, which is fine because I never found a practical use for that and really only need to find file names, which still works fine with the finder search.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com



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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 16:23:40
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Clue thy name is nospam...

    el

    On 06/07/2021 13:24, nospam wrote:
    In article <sc19mh$su7$1@remote6hme0.ripco.com>, <bje@ripco.com> wrote:

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


    He's not correct anyways.

    no surprise there. he's quite clueless.

    I've had everything (yes, everything) deselected in Spotlight for the past >> few years and I still get periodic software update notifications.

    that is normal.

    disabling spotlight entirely will cause problems.



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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 16:36:24
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    From

    https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-spotlight-preferences-mchlp2811/mac

    [...]
    Important: If you exclude certain files and folders you may not be
    notified when updates become available for some apps. If you
    exclude your entire internal disk, you won’t be notified about any
    updates.
    [...]

    On 06/07/2021 16:23, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Clue thy name is nospam...

    el

    On 06/07/2021 13:24, nospam wrote:
    In article <sc19mh$su7$1@remote6hme0.ripco.com>, <bje@ripco.com> wrote:

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


    He's not correct anyways.

    no surprise there. he's quite clueless.

    I've had everything (yes, everything) deselected in Spotlight for the past >>> few years and I still get periodic software update notifications.

    that is normal.

    disabling spotlight entirely will cause problems.




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  • From bje@bje@ripco.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 15:44:13
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.na> wrote:

    [...]
    Important: If you exclude certain files and folders you may not be
    notified when updates become available for some apps. If you
    exclude your entire internal disk, you won?t be notified about any
    updates.
    [...]

    That isn't the same thing you brought up before...

    Klicking it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Search Results

    What they are talking about in the above is...

    System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy

    In my Search Results panel I have everything clicked off. But I do not
    exclude the boot drive from the Privacy panel.

    Thus to answer the earlier question, I can only vouch for apps, when
    there is a new version I get the dot in the App Store icon and a "stuck" notification in the upper right hand side saying "new versions..blah..blah).

    No clue about the OS updates, my daily driver is stuck at High Sierra and I don't remember if they pushed a notification on something that can't be updated. I don't think so.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 09:41:15
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-06 7:36 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    From

    https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-spotlight-preferences-mchlp2811/mac


    [...]
         Important: If you exclude certain files and folders you may not be
         notified when updates become available for some apps.  If you
         exclude your entire internal disk, you won’t be notified about any
         updates.
    [...]

    As I thought: you read it on the internet.

    That is if you add certain folders in the PRIVACY tab.

    NOT remove the category from Search Results.


    On 06/07/2021 16:23, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Clue thy name is nospam...

    el

    On 06/07/2021 13:24, nospam wrote:
    In article <sc19mh$su7$1@remote6hme0.ripco.com>, <bje@ripco.com> wrote:

    And did you actually see that it wouldn't find updates...

    ...or did you just read it on the internet?


    He's not correct anyways.

    no surprise there. he's quite clueless.

    I've had everything (yes, everything) deselected in Spotlight for
    the past
    few years and I still get periodic software update notifications.

    that is normal.

    disabling spotlight entirely will cause problems.





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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 07, 2021 00:39:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Yada, yada, yada...

    quite lame actually.

    el

    On 2021-07-06 18:41 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-06 7:36 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    From

    https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-spotlight-preferences-mchlp2811/mac

    [...]
          Important: If you exclude certain files and folders you may not be
          notified when updates become available for some apps.  If you
          exclude your entire internal disk, you won’t be notified about any
          updates.
    [...]

    As I thought: you read it on the internet.

    That is if you add certain folders in the PRIVACY tab.

    NOT remove the category from Search Results.
    [...]

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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 15:50:19
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-06 3:39 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Yada, yada, yada...

    quite lame actually.

    I notice you don't actually deny that I accurately described what you did...

    ...and the article that you excerpted the part of the article that
    explicitly said that the information you provided pertained solely to
    using the option exclude certain files and folders.

    "Privacy options

    Option [actually column 1]

    Description [actually column 2]


    Option:
    List of locations

    Description:
    Locations on your Mac excluded from Spotlight searches.


    Option:
    Add+

    Description:
    To exclude a location from Spotlight searches, click the Add button ,
    then select a folder or disk. You can also drag folders or disks into
    the list.

    If you exclude a Time Machine backup disk, you will continue to see
    messages that Spotlight is indexing it. This indexing is necessary for
    Time Machine to function properly and can’t be disabled. Spotlight does exclude from searches items stored on the backup disk that are not part
    of a Time Machine backup."

    Then your text is the next paragraph of the "Add+" option.


    el

    On 2021-07-06 18:41 , Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-06 7:36 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    From

    https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-spotlight-preferences-mchlp2811/mac


    [...]
          Important: If you exclude certain files and folders you may not be
          notified when updates become available for some apps.  If you >>>       exclude your entire internal disk, you won’t be notified about any
          updates.
    [...]

    As I thought: you read it on the internet.

    That is if you add certain folders in the PRIVACY tab.

    NOT remove the category from Search Results.
    [...]


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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 07, 2021 11:59:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Your childish meta-discussion about the exegesis of posts made or not
    made is boring. Or perhaps, your boring meta-discussion about the
    exegesis of posts made or not made is childish.


    Point is, that if one turns off Spotlight one may lose Update
    notifications.

    And further point is, that if one clicks off everything but Applications
    (and perhaps also the home directory), this should conserve Updates
    while taking much less time and resources for the indexing (which is
    what bothers most most as it can slow down the machine). The size of
    the index doesn't matter these days much any more.

    el


    On 07/07/2021 00:50, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-06 3:39 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Yada, yada, yada...

    quite lame actually.

    I notice you don't actually deny that I accurately described what you
    did...

    ...and the article that you excerpted the part of the article that
    explicitly said that the information you provided pertained solely to
    using the option exclude certain files and folders.
    [...]


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  • From Alan Baker@notonyourlife@no.no.no.no to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 07, 2021 07:45:25
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-07 2:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Your childish meta-discussion about the exegesis of posts made or not
    made is boring.  Or perhaps, your boring meta-discussion about the
    exegesis of posts made or not made is childish.


    Point is, that if one turns off Spotlight one may lose Update
    notifications.

    Nope.

    The point is that you claimed to do one thing, but then your posted
    article was about another.

    I guess that's why you once again snipped the information I provided
    that showed that.


    And further point is, that if one clicks off everything but Applications
    (and perhaps also the home directory), this should conserve Updates
    while taking much less time and resources for the indexing (which is
    what bothers most most as it can slow down the machine).  The size of
    the index doesn't matter these days much any more.

    Actually, after the index is first built, the ongoing indexing takes
    almost no time at all.

    Another thing you clearly don't understand.


    el


    On 07/07/2021 00:50, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-06 3:39 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Yada, yada, yada...

    quite lame actually.

    I notice you don't actually deny that I accurately described what you
    did...

    ...and the article that you excerpted the part of the article that
    explicitly said that the information you provided pertained solely to
    using the option exclude certain files and folders.
    [...]



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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 08, 2021 11:25:59
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Yeah, whatever.

    el

    On 07/07/2021 16:45, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-07 2:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
    Your childish meta-discussion about the exegesis of posts made or not
    made is boring.  Or perhaps, your boring meta-discussion about the
    exegesis of posts made or not made is childish.


    Point is, that if one turns off Spotlight one may lose Update
    notifications.

    Nope.

    The point is that you claimed to do one thing, but then your posted article was about another.

    I guess that's why you once again snipped the information I provided that showed that.


    And further point is, that if one clicks off everything but Applications
    (and perhaps also the home directory), this should conserve Updates
    while taking much less time and resources for the indexing (which is
    what bothers most most as it can slow down the machine).  The size of
    the index doesn't matter these days much any more.

    Actually, after the index is first built, the ongoing indexing takes almost no time at all.

    Another thing you clearly don't understand.


    el


    On 07/07/2021 00:50, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-06 3:39 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
    Yada, yada, yada...

    quite lame actually.

    I notice you don't actually deny that I accurately described what you
    did...

    ...and the article that you excerpted the part of the article that
    explicitly said that the information you provided pertained solely to
    using the option exclude certain files and folders.
    [...]





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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 02:23:21
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    ...
    Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It???s a
    sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

    Yep. Something is definitely wrong.

    Yeah, I need to figure out what is wrong since it happened again late
    last night after reindexing a few days ago. It was not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder (almost 1,700 files and 16
    GB). 2020 Intel MacBook Pro's Disk Utility app found nothing wrong.
    Reboot didn't help. :(

    And again last night. Is there a Spotlight log somewhere in macOS? I
    forgot to mention this is in a standard level account (not admin.).
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 02:26:55
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.software Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    ...
    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(


    2 check your system; Spotlight isn???t supposed to lose files unless there???s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    Disk Utility app found no problems in SSD and all of its default partitions.


    3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC
    or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a
    full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there???s a hardware problem, and you need a new drive.

    We will try that when it's really bad. We do use Time Machine with
    external HDDs. I am sure the physical SSD is fine. I wonder if the
    Chinese documents, since Windows 98 days, are messing up Spotlight
    index.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 13:07:02
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <9f-dncK4gdGiZ3r9nZ2dnUU7-WudnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.software Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    ...
    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data
    into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
    where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and slow-downs.

    Despite the advice, using sub folders will not make the slightest impact
    on Spotlight.

    2 check your system; Spotlight isn???t supposed to lose files unless
    there???s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    Disk Utility app found no problems in SSD and all of its default partitions.

    I suspect the issue it the Office.mdimporter file, since it is office
    files that seem to be the issue.

    We will try that when it's really bad. We do use Time Machine with
    external HDDs. I am sure the physical SSD is fine. I wonder if the
    Chinese documents, since Windows 98 days, are messing up Spotlight
    index.

    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    --
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 09:14:58
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsegifm.1il6.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data
    into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
    where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and slow-downs.

    that hasn't been an issue since at least as far back as tiger/10.4 or panther/10.3 (don't remember exactly when) and macs which had
    relatively small amounts of memory.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 14:55:06
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.apps Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    In message <9f-dncK4gdGiZ3r9nZ2dnUU7-WudnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.software Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
    ...
    Ah...

    1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data
    into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
    where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and slow-downs.

    He doesn't stuff everything into his desktop for sure since he gets confused with his cluttered desktop. :)


    Despite the advice, using sub folders will not make the slightest impact
    on Spotlight.

    Ah, OK.


    2 check your system; Spotlight isn???t supposed to lose files unless
    there???s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.

    Disk Utility app found no problems in SSD and all of its default partitions.

    I suspect the issue it the Office.mdimporter file, since it is office
    files that seem to be the issue.

    According to
    http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009100219405524, https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_mac-mso_mac2011/outlook-2011-spotlight-not-working-mud-folder/3f7a8a3b-143e-472e-838f-c269da4f70e2.
    etc. (outdated though), /Library has Spotlight, but there is no
    Spotlight subdirectory. I also checked local ~/Library). I forgot to
    mention that Office is v16.50 (365 subscription from USC.edu). https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7368240 mentioned putting HD (SSD
    in my case) into Spotlight's preferences' privacy tab to remove all and reindex all beside ~/Documents. Now, I need to wait for Spotlight to
    reindex ALL datas in this account. :(


    We will try that when it's really bad. We do use Time Machine with external HDDs. I am sure the physical SSD is fine. I wonder if the
    Chinese documents, since Windows 98 days, are messing up Spotlight
    index.

    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    So, what should I try with it? What do I run in Terminal with it if
    reindexing all of my client's datas doesn't work?

    --
    Go LA (NBA)! Oh wait... It had been over a year... Will 2021 repeat 2020? :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 22:50:12
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <Pq-dnavmp5EHNHX9nZ2dnUU7-KfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    So, what should I try with it? What do I run in Terminal with it if reindexing all of my client's datas doesn't work?

    I have no advice on that as I do not use MS Word at all and have not for
    many many years. My word processing needs are nearly-non existent, and
    for the few documents I need to "word process" I will generally use
    Pages, or if it is simple, markdown -> HMTL.

    I *detest* all versions of Word after 5.1 (Mac), and that version does
    not run on any OS in the last 20+ years.

    --
    Yeah, Nick. Nick's the kinda guy you can trust. Nick's your buddy
    Nick's the kinda guy you drink beers with. The kinda guy that
    doesn't care if you puke in his car. Nick.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 22:51:19
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <090720210914587802%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsegifm.1il6.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data
    into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
    where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and
    slow-downs.

    that hasn't been an issue since at least as far back as tiger/10.4 or panther/10.3 (don't remember exactly when) and macs which had
    relatively small amounts of memory.

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but
    it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    --
    "Alas, earwax."
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 19:25:35
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsehkn7.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data >> into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
    where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and
    slow-downs.

    that hasn't been an issue since at least as far back as tiger/10.4 or panther/10.3 (don't remember exactly when) and macs which had
    relatively small amounts of memory.

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but
    it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

    the problem with desktop icons in early versions of mac os x was that
    each icon was implemented as a small window, which has its own backing
    store. that's a lot of memory for simply having an icon on the desktop.

    since macs back then didn't have much memory and the the cpus had to
    redraw each 'window', things quickly became sluggish. those who had a
    lot of desktop icons ended up thrashing fairly quickly, and adding to
    that, hard drives back then weren't that fast.

    but as i said, that hasn't been a problem since at least 10.3 or 10.4.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 23:41:01
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.software Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    In message <Pq-dnavmp5EHNHX9nZ2dnUU7-KfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    So, what should I try with it? What do I run in Terminal with it if reindexing all of my client's datas doesn't work?

    I have no advice on that as I do not use MS Word at all and have not for
    many many years. My word processing needs are nearly-non existent, and
    for the few documents I need to "word process" I will generally use
    Pages, or if it is simple, markdown -> HMTL.

    I *detest* all versions of Word after 5.1 (Mac), and that version does
    not run on any OS in the last 20+ years.

    Alright. Thanks anyways! At least, you gave more ideas. :)
    --
    Go LA (NBA)! Oh wait... It had been over a year... Will 2021 repeat 2020? :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 09, 2021 23:49:23
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In comp.sys.mac.software Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    ...
    mention that Office is v16.50 (365 subscription from USC.edu). https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7368240 mentioned putting HD (SSD
    in my case) into Spotlight's preferences' privacy tab to remove all and reindex all beside ~/Documents. Now, I need to wait for Spotlight to
    reindex ALL datas in this account. :(

    OK, it looks like Spotlight reindexed the whole 2 TB SSD (.36 TB
    used/1.64 TB free). I noticed Spotlight's searches revealed way more
    search hits in "HD". Documents folder's results were the same. Let's
    hope this stays this way and not miss any like before.
    --
    Go LA (NBA)! Oh wait... It had been over a year... Will 2021 repeat 2020? :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 10, 2021 14:42:48
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <090720211925359730%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsehkn7.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including
    images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't
    listen. :(

    He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
    organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data >> >> into a single folder if that is what works for you.

    The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder >> >> where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and
    slow-downs.

    that hasn't been an issue since at least as far back as tiger/10.4 or
    panther/10.3 (don't remember exactly when) and macs which had
    relatively small amounts of memory.

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but
    it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

    Not on a modern machine/OS it doesn't. There are 37,336 files in a
    single folder in my Documents folder. The only issue is that the first
    time I open that folder, it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the Finder window.

    --
    I miss the old days. I haven't killed anyone in years.

    That's sad.
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 10, 2021 14:32:20
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsejcf8.2iu1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but
    it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

    Not on a modern machine/OS it doesn't. There are 37,336 files in a
    single folder in my Documents folder. The only issue is that the first
    time I open that folder, it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the Finder window.

    10-20 seconds to open a window would be considered to be a problem.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 10, 2021 18:57:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <100720211432209073%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsejcf8.2iu1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but >> >> it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

    Not on a modern machine/OS it doesn't. There are 37,336 files in a
    single folder in my Documents folder. The only issue is that the first
    time I open that folder, it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the Finder
    window.

    10-20 seconds to open a window would be considered to be a problem.

    Not really as it is only the first time it is opened. And then you see it
    has 37,336 files in it. Also, it is probably less as I did not time it,
    and waiting on a screen to load always feels much longer than it is. The
    second time I opened it it had 37,347 files in it and it opened instantly.


    --
    Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like
    a fractured mirror, all marvelous facets and rainbows but,
    ultimately, also something that was broken. --Hogfather
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  • From Dr Eberhard W Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 10, 2021 22:17:56
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    It's not the opening of the Window but the generation of the icons
    that takes the time.

    el

    On 2021-07-10 20:32 , nospam wrote:
    In article <slrnsejcf8.2iu1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but >>>> it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

    thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

    Not on a modern machine/OS it doesn't. There are 37,336 files in a
    single folder in my Documents folder. The only issue is that the first
    time I open that folder, it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the Finder
    window.

    10-20 seconds to open a window would be considered to be a problem.

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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Sunday, July 11, 2021 18:03:35
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsehkl4.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>,
    Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <Pq-dnavmp5EHNHX9nZ2dnUU7-KfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    So, what should I try with it? What do I run in Terminal with it if reindexing all of my client's datas doesn't work?

    I have no advice on that as I do not use MS Word at all and have not for
    many many years. My word processing needs are nearly-non existent, and
    for the few documents I need to "word process" I will generally use
    Pages, or if it is simple, markdown -> HMTL.

    I *detest* all versions of Word after 5.1 (Mac), and that version does
    not run on any OS in the last 20+ years.

    I can run 5.1 and 11.6.1 (part of Office 2004) on my old PowerPC G4 with Tiger.

    11.6.1 seems to be able to convert any Word documents from later apps, I haven't run across one it can't yet.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, July 12, 2021 13:33:33
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <super70s-C8105C.18033511072021@reader02.eternal-september.org> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsehkl4.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>,
    Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <Pq-dnavmp5EHNHX9nZ2dnUU7-KfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant
    <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    In comp.sys.mac.apps Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    That makes me suspect the Office.mdimporter even more.

    So, what should I try with it? What do I run in Terminal with it if
    reindexing all of my client's datas doesn't work?

    I have no advice on that as I do not use MS Word at all and have not for
    many many years. My word processing needs are nearly-non existent, and
    for the few documents I need to "word process" I will generally use
    Pages, or if it is simple, markdown -> HMTL.

    I *detest* all versions of Word after 5.1 (Mac), and that version does
    not run on any OS in the last 20+ years.

    I can run 5.1 and 11.6.1 (part of Office 2004) on my old PowerPC G4 with Tiger.

    No, you can run 5.1 in a MacOS 9 CLASSIC environment running under
    Tiger, and Classic is running a previous century OS (possibly with a
    couple of updates) released in this millennium.

    So no, Word 5.1 cannot run on any OS in the last 22 years (MacOS 9 was
    released in 1999).

    Other than an April 1 issue of TidBITS back in 2003, there was never a
    versions of Word 5.1 for Mac OS X.

    --
    Trying?
    if you quote yoda, i swear upon everything holy that i will book a
    flight to okinawa to kick your ass.
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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 05:09:34
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnseoh5d.2s03.g.kreme@m1mini.local>,
    Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    In message <super70s-C8105C.18033511072021@reader02.eternal-september.org> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsehkl4.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>,
    Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    I *detest* all versions of Word after 5.1 (Mac), and that version does
    not run on any OS in the last 20+ years.

    I can run 5.1 and 11.6.1 (part of Office 2004) on my old PowerPC G4 with Tiger.

    No, you can run 5.1 in a MacOS 9 CLASSIC environment running under
    Tiger,

    I thought that was too obvious to mention.

    So no, Word 5.1 cannot run on any OS in the last 22 years (MacOS 9 was released in 1999).

    I wasn't disputing that.

    Other than an April 1 issue of TidBITS back in 2003, there was never a versions of Word 5.1 for Mac OS X.

    Didn't know that but I wouldn't need it since as I said I can also run
    11.6.1 on Tiger. I don't even need 5.1 since 11.6.1 opens up all the
    files that were created with 5.1, I just keep it on the HD for old
    time's sake.
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  • From J Burns@burns@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 16, 2021 14:27:22
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:
    On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
    It seems I have to do it monthly
    (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
    matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
    older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    Now that I read your message again, it rings a bell. Years ago, I
    started using OpenOffice. The default for text files is .ODT.

    I discovered that Spotlight wouldn't always find ODT files whose
    content contained the search term. For some reason, if I rebuilt
    Spotlight, it would show some of the ODT files with the term.

    I used to know how to view the components of an ODT file. I wish I
    knew how to do it now. It saves the text as a ZIP file.  DOCX also
    uses ZIP. Evidently, Spotlight normally ignores ZIP files.

    For years, I hoped this would be fixed in an OS update. If Apple
    hasn't fixed it, I should.

    Will EasyFind search contents of ZIP files? If there's no way to
    search them, I need to convert ODT files to another format. What's a
    good searchable format for word processor documents?

    'LibreOffice comes with a Spotlight importer in its bundle. You can
    confirm this with the following terminal command:


         /usr/bin/mdimport -L


    , which lists available importers and included in this list should be:



    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.
    mdimporter"'

    <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7484775>

    And running "mdimport -L" on my own system shows:

    '"/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",


    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a question!

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are
    Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Friday, July 16, 2021 19:28:37
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:

    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a
    question!

    Well let's see how long it takes you to respond to this...

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    What do you mean by "ask Terminal for a list"?

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see
    an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the "Library" directories or inside of application bundles.

    --
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    JR
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  • From J Burns@burns@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, July 26, 2021 15:36:33
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:

    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a
    question!

    Well let's see how long it takes you to respond to this...

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are
    Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    What do you mean by "ask Terminal for a list"?

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see
    an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.


    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",

    "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/thunderbird.mdimporter"



    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the "Library" directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I find OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    Spotlight will find some but not all ODT documents with a certain name
    in their content. It looks as if it hasn't seen the content of those
    that haven't been opened in years.

    Lately, I've been repeatedly sidetracked researching the history of
    bicycles.
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  • From Snit@brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.systems on Monday, July 26, 2021 19:41:16
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On Jul 26, 2021 at 12:36:33 PM MST, "J Burns" wrote <sdn2s2$tb3$1@dont-email.me>:

    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:

    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a
    question!

    Well let's see how long it takes you to respond to this...

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are
    Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    What do you mean by "ask Terminal for a list"?

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see
    an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.


    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImport er.mdimporter",

    "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/thunderbird.mdimpo rter"



    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the "Library"
    directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I find OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    Spotlight will find some but not all ODT documents with a certain name
    in their content. It looks as if it hasn't seen the content of those
    that haven't been opened in years.

    Lately, I've been repeatedly sidetracked researching the history of
    bicycles.

    Sounds tiring.

    --
    Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

    They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 15:58:23
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-26, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:

    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a
    question!

    Well let's see how long it takes you to respond to this...

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are
    Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    What do you mean by "ask Terminal for a list"?

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see
    an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/thunderbird.mdimporter"

    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the "Library"
    directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I find OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    I'm confused.

    Did you not just above say that "mdimport -L" *did* find it?

    I quote:

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see
    an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter"

    What am I missing?

    Spotlight will find some but not all ODT documents with a certain name
    in their content. It looks as if it hasn't seen the content of those
    that haven't been opened in years.

    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice
    Spotlight plugin.

    Lately, I've been repeatedly sidetracked researching the history of bicycles.

    Okay.

    --
    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 21:58:08
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <imaoovFifqbU1@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice
    Spotlight plugin.

    A bug in LibreOffice? UNPOSSIBLE! <VBG>


    --
    Reality is a curve. That's not the problem. The problem is that there
    isn't as much as there should be. According to some of the more
    mystical texts in the stacks of the library of Unseen University
    - (...) - at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever
    created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by
    definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this
    puts a bit of a strain on things. --Moving Pictures
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 18:42:36
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <slrnsg10bg.16d1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice Spotlight plugin.

    A bug in LibreOffice? UNPOSSIBLE! <VBG>

    it's what they do best.
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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 12:31:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <270720211842368486%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsg10bg.16d1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice
    Spotlight plugin.

    A bug in LibreOffice? UNPOSSIBLE! <VBG>

    it's what they do best.

    To be fair, they are largely copying MS Office functionality, perhaps
    they are emulating the bugs as well?


    --
    Moving into the universe And she's drifting this way and that Not
    touching the ground at all And she's up above the yard
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 16:12:35
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-28, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
    In message <270720211842368486%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <slrnsg10bg.16d1.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis
    <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice
    Spotlight plugin.

    A bug in LibreOffice? UNPOSSIBLE! <VBG>

    it's what they do best.

    To be fair, they are largely copying MS Office functionality, perhaps
    they are emulating the bugs as well?

    +1

    : D

    --
    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR
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  • From J Burns@burns@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 31, 2021 10:22:29
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/27/21 11:58 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-26, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
    On 2021-07-05 1:46 p.m., J Burns wrote:

    Darn! I got distracted and just now remembered that I'd posted a
    question!

    Well let's see how long it takes you to respond to this...

    When I ask Terminal for a list, the two Applications importers are
    Thunderbird and LibreOffice.

    What do you mean by "ask Terminal for a list"?

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see >>> an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/thunderbird.mdimporter"

    Under Applications in the Finder, when I check the Contents of
    LibreOffice and OpenOffice, each has its importer in Libraries. I
    wonder why the OpenOffice importer doesn't show up in /user/bin.

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the "Library"
    directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I find
    OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    I'm confused.

    Did you not just above say that "mdimport -L" *did* find it?

    I quote:

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you did see >>> an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter"

    What am I missing?

    I use OpenOffice but at some time installed LibreOffice. It seems
    "mdimport -L" didn't find the mdimporter in the OpenOffice bundle.

    Should I use Appcleaner to get rid of both apps, then reinstall OpenOffice?

    Spotlight will find some but not all ODT documents with a certain name
    in their content. It looks as if it hasn't seen the content of those
    that haven't been opened in years.

    If I had to guess, I'd say this is due to a bug in the LibreOffice
    Spotlight plugin.

    Lately, I've been repeatedly sidetracked researching the history of
    bicycles.

    Okay.
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Saturday, July 31, 2021 17:46:56
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-07-31, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/27/21 11:58 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-26, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the
    "Library" directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I
    find OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    I'm confused.

    Did you not just above say that "mdimport -L" *did* find it?

    I quote:

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you
    did see an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter"

    What am I missing?

    I use OpenOffice but at some time installed LibreOffice. It seems
    "mdimport -L" didn't find the mdimporter in the OpenOffice bundle.

    Ah - sorry, I missed that distinction.

    Should I use Appcleaner to get rid of both apps, then reinstall OpenOffice?

    I wouldn't think an app cleaner is required (and they often cause more
    problems than they solve by deleting things they shouldn't anyway). Just reinstall it over what you already have (or drag the app to the trash
    first).

    --
    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR
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  • From J Burns@burns@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.software,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps on Monday, August 02, 2021 00:13:13
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 7/31/21 1:46 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-31, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/27/21 11:58 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-26, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/21 3:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2021-07-16, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
    On 7/5/21 5:03 PM, Alan Baker wrote:

    Importers aren't in /usr/bin - that's where the mdimport tools is
    installed. Importers are typically installed in one of the
    "Library" directories or inside of application bundles.

    In the Open Office application bundle, in the Spotlight folder, I
    find OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

    But "mdimport -L" doesn't seem to find it.

    I'm confused.

    Did you not just above say that "mdimport -L" *did* find it?

    I quote:

    Are you trying to say you ran "mdimport -L" in Terminal, and you
    did see an importer for LibreOffice in that listing?

    Yes.

    "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter"

    What am I missing?

    I use OpenOffice but at some time installed LibreOffice. It seems
    "mdimport -L" didn't find the mdimporter in the OpenOffice bundle.

    Ah - sorry, I missed that distinction.

    Should I use Appcleaner to get rid of both apps, then reinstall OpenOffice?

    I wouldn't think an app cleaner is required (and they often cause more problems than they solve by deleting things they shouldn't anyway). Just reinstall it over what you already have (or drag the app to the trash
    first).


    I went to Openoffice.org for the latest, and they recommended
    Libreoffice. Openoffice.org quit years ago. I was hardly aware that I'd
    been using Apache Open Office. They don't seem to have been very busy
    since 2014, so there could be an overlooked Spotlight problem.

    I'll switch to Libreoffice. There was something I disliked the last time
    I tried it, but I don't even remember what.
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