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1. Greg Egan (gregegansf@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 23:31:40 UTC Greg Egan

   Depressing to discover that under the latest MacOS, even after forcing the re-indexing of the contents of my entire hard drive, I can find dozens of examples of plain text files containing particular words that don’t show up in Spotlight searches for files containing those words.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 23:31:37 UTC Robert McNees

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     @gregeganSF It has gotten terrible. I have a long list of complaints.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 23:34:09 UTC Robert McNees

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     @gregeganSF I mean, besides it just not working sometimes. Like, searching for a term in quotes doesn’t work. Wtf? This is basic search syntax. Quotes means “find this phrase exactly” and now spotlight interprets it as “find the phrase but only if it appears in quotes.” Mind boggling.

   • Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (dgoldsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 00:18:37 UTC Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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     • Robert McNees

     @mcnees @gregeganSF If you haven't already, would you mind filing feedback reports?
     You can enter this URL in Safari: applefeedback:// and use the Feedback Assistant app (you can keep it in the Dock so you only have to use the Safari trick once).

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 02:42:13 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

     @dgoldsmith @gregeganSF Thank you for pointing this out! I was not aware. Filing some reports now.