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  1. AppDiscovery

    Promotion: AppDiscovery Pro -> Semantic Search & apps gone free

    Search plays a huge role in how users discover and download content on the App Store. With millions apps currently available in the App Store, actually finding what you are looking for is a lot of harder than it should be. Sure, it’s pretty easy to find those brand name apps, like Twitter or...
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    Indexing /Users/Shared with Spotlight

    Hi! Anyone know if there's a way to force Spotlight to index the contents of the /Users/Shared folder? I tried sudo mdutil -i on /Users/Shared but that didn't work. I also tried adding and removing the folder to the Spotlight Privacy exclusion list in System Settings. Didn't work either.
  3. melissapete24

    Suddenly Can't Access Anything Google

    I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.2.6; it has been since the update first came out, as I like to keep my devices up to date. Yesterday, everything was working just fine; I had no issues whatsoever. Today is a whole different story. I can't access anything Google. I first noticed it when I...
  4. anthony818N

    Why does Safari show history of sites I have never been on?

    I have an iPhone 8 Plus with up to date software. I have noticed that my Safari has some sites in the History that I have never visited. For example, this is going to sound very strange, but one thing that appeared was a search from the Expedia website, the page displayed a Payment for a...
  5. trumpetmercenary

    Can you search within a note you're already reading?

    Probably an oft-asked question, but once you're reading a note in iOS, can you search within it? All of the guides on the internet just tell you how to search ALL of your notes. But on the desktop version of Notes, you can search within notes, which is super useful for longer ones: Sure...
  6. ajbennell

    Safari keeps using DuckDuckGo even though it is set to use Google

    If I type a search into the address / search bar on Safari it takes me to DuckDuckGo. I have checked the settings / preferences and Google is set as my chosen search engine. I have tried selecting Yahoo, Bing etc but all have the same outcome. I don’t suppose anyone has any ideas why this is...
  7. L

    Smart search (save) - search folder names

    Hi, I'm setting up a list of smart folders which will search inside my sample library folder called 'Samples'. Each Smart Search Criteria has some conditions, i.e. Name matches 'Bass' Duration is more than 2 seconds Any (Are true) Wav Aiff Rex All works fine. But I was wondering, my...
  8. AnthonyG6

    No App Location Info on Search

    When I search for an app on my iPhone X using the search function it doesn't show the name of the folder the app is located in? I have lots of folders so this is rather annoying. It used to show the name on iOS 10, is this something that's missing from iOS 11?
  9. muharremozkan

    PDF Search for iOS : AI-powered search within PDFs

    Hello to Everyone, PDF Search is a PDF reader, making AI-Powered search to find the most relevant pages inside thousands of PDF documents quickly. It will show you the most relevant pages by ranking them using its AI-Powered algorithm. You can find the detailed information on application web...
  10. urbanforces

    how to list all items in a folder and its subfolders?

    hi, i've seen a few people searching for similar things but none of the solutions work. ideally i don't want a list produced by terminal because i hate using it. i've tried using finder to search for kind -> music but it only shows three random files out of thousands. the reason i want to...
  11. D

    Search documents in iCloud Drive by color tag doesn't work

    I just moved some of my documents folders to iCloud Drive and realized that my smart folders searching for certain documents having color tags don't work anymore. The files on iCloud Drive still have the color tag, but the search for color tags on iCloud files doesn't work... Has anybody...
  12. L

    Searching help

    Hi, when i type something in the search box in the top right corner of the finder window, it says below it that it can either search 'This Mac' or 'All Files' - I have 4 hard drives in my mac pro - is there a way i can get it to search all drives at once? I have tried clicking 'All files' -...
  13. wilsonlaidlaw

    iOS iOS search in 10.3.3 is finding data in locked notes

    I was searching for something else on my iPhone by using the pull down search facility from the home screen. I was horrified for some confidential data to pop up in the search box, from within a locked note. I double checked and the data was definitely in the body of the locked note, not in the...
  14. Q

    iPhone Whatsapp search history doesn't work

    I've been using whatsapp for several years now, I have a chat history for over 4 years where I sometimes search for messages and so on. My chat history is getting backed up on iCloud, A few weeks ago I accidently removed Whatsapp from my phone and I reinstalled my history. When I scroll up...
  15. w00t951

    Google/YouTube link delay in Safari?

    Hey everyone, I noticed that about 25% of the time, links I click in a Google Search listing or YouTube links of any kind won't "click" the first time. The loading bar doesn't appear, and repeatedly clicking it doesn't change anything. The only solution is to click it once, then sit back and...
  16. N

    Finder search does not find results!

    Recently my search results do not return when I used the search in Finder. I have already checked my spotlight preferences and everything is selected. It is also doing the same thing in my outlook (will not return search results). This is so frustrating.
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    Moving the Mail folder

    In the past (under Snow Leopard) I was able to create a sym link at ~/Library/Mail and keep the actual Mail folder on an encrypted diskimage. I am trying to do something similar now on El Capitan but I seem to have lost the ability to perform searches on imported mailboxes from within Mail.app...
  18. BrianBaughn

    Pathetic Searching in Apple Music

    Searching in Apple Music is incredibly pathetic. For example, I search, in iTunes, for "yesterday", click on Songs>See all and I get 37 results. "All"? Five of the results are for something other than songs titled "Yesterday". The Lennon/McCartney song "Yesterday" has been recorded over 3000...
  19. muharremozkan

    Doclight - The best document search tool for Mac

    Hi, Please just check our new application Doclight. Doclight is a new and smart way of searching documents which will support your success at work, school and home. It is a system integrated search application. You can start a search directly from system menu bar like Spotlight. It enables you...
  20. S

    How to search within favourite photos?

    I want to search the photos on my phone for photos taken in 2016 of a certain person (so far so good) - but only include Favourites. I can search photos taken in 2016 & for a named person (596 results). As soon as I add 'Favourites' to the search, there are 0 results. If I go into the...