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CHAPTER 3 USING SPOTLIGHT, EXPOSÉ, SPACES, AND DASHBOARD
Table 3-1 describes the general search criteria.
Table 3-1. Search Criteria to Refine Searches
Criteria Description
What Provides check boxes to determine whether the search should be limited to file
names only and to system files. By default, the search will exclude system files;
however, with all other files it will attempt to find the search string in any metadata,
text within the item, and Finder comments as well as the actual file name.
Kind This can help narrow down your search to a specific kind of file and includes the
following options: Applications, Documents, Folders, Images, Movies, Music,
PDF, Presentations, Text, and Other. Certain options will allow you to further
refine the kind; for example, Images will allow you to narrow search results to
specific image formats.
Last opened date This will allow you to narrow search results to a date, or range of dates, when the
item was last opened.
Last modified date This will allow you to narrow search results to a date, or range of dates, when the
item was last modified.
Created date This will allow you to narrow search results to a date, or range of dates, when the
item was created.
Name This will allow you to match additional search strings against the name of the file.
Contents This will allow you to match additional search strings against the contents of
the file.
Other This option will open a window with a number of additional search criteria that
can be added to your search (Figure 3-5); many of these items are common
metadata items or other common possible search criteria. Your actual list may
change because of third-party applications that add their own data here.
Figure 3-5. The Other search option opens a window that contains a large list of other common
metadata and search criteria.