1 post tagged “spotlightfs”

I tried SpotlightFS for a while yesterday and was unfortunately not that impressed. It's a nice concept, but still needs work. You are limited to multi-word searches (no booleans) so it's difficult to refine the results such that they are useful. Example:

[1133][jchilders@Ivan:/Volumes/SpotlightFS/cocoa]$ ls

:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:brush.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:button.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:checkbox.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:checklst.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:choice.h
:usr:include:wx-2.5:wx:clipbrd.h
....
[snip]

So.. interesting, but not there yet. At least the regular Spotlight window groups your search results by type. As far as I can tell with SpotlightFS there is no way to refine your results beyond simple keywords. Also, you cannot open files directly from within the SpotlightFS directory, which almost defeats the purpose of having it.

This is an interesting experiment, and I'll keep an eye on it, but as it exists right now it's not particularly useful on a day-to-day basis.