Thanks for the reply. I found the instructions for rebuilding the index, and you can get it to do one folder by adding and removing it from Spotlight’s excluded folders. I did that and observed the files disappearing and reappearing in the saved search. Trouble is, it is the same set of files. I even tried modifying the search so that it only looks for “Larry.” Still the same set of files. Learning AppleScript is on my to-do list, but I would not have expected to need it for something as simple as this. A little disappointed with my shiny new toy. Perhaps a bit more Googling is in order.
Larry > On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Larry, > > I don't think anybody answered you on this. One possibility is that the > database that is used to support search services like spotlight somehow > missed those files. You can do a Google search on how to re-build the > Spotlight database. If you have a hard disk Macintosh (not solid state), then > it could take overnight to rebuild the index database. > > Another approach you could take is to learn AppleScript something close to : > > tell finder > set mmfiles to every media file whose Name contains "Sean" > > I am not sure this is the way to grab media files as it has been several > months since I did any Finder Applescripts. > > Take care, > > Jonathan > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > > >> On Aug 1, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com >> <mailto:larry.thacker...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I’m relatively new to the Mac, but this seems straightforward enough, except >> it doesn’t seem to be. I have a subfolder in my home folder called >> Podcasts. I want to work with a subset of the files in this folder, >> specifically, those featuring yours truly. So I created a saved search that >> simply says kind is any, name contains Message by Larry. This search should >> return more than 60 files, but it returns 9. I looked at one of the file >> names that is not turning up and it matches case and all. 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