You must have Spotlight indexing turned off. It works for me in ALL of the apps you suggested that it does not. Alternately, you may have a corrupted Spotlight index. You can google how to remedy that.
Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Thanks Jim and others. > > I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conveniently (more > or less) for the things I need. I can always use the "find" function in > Stickies. I can search my email messages in Mail. This is the usual procedure. > > I always had the vague idea that find-by-content in Mac OS, was available as > a last resort if I couldn't find something important. Today I was searching > for some notes I made several months ago. I couldn't remember whether I had > saved the notes in a LC stack, in stickies, in an email I sent to myself, or > whatever. I thought find-by-content would help me find the notes. I knew they > contained some rare or unique words. It didn't help. > > I can't fault other developers if Apple itself doesn't enable find-by-content > in its own applications. Come to think of it, find by content probably > doesn't work for bookmarks in Safari. Nor does it work for "events" in iCal. > Nor any content in Address Book, nor email messages in Mail -- not sender nor > recipient nor address nor content. Funny, I always assumed it did all of > these things, but never thought much about it. <snip> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
