If you use your Mac every day for work and your personal life, chances are you have a lot of files, photos, folders, documents, and other data all over your Mac. It can make finding one specific file a pain in the butt. Luckily, Spotlight lets you search your Mac for pretty much anything, making it easy to find whatever you need. Mar 9, 2012 - Spotlight is Mac OS X's powerful built-in search engine. These are the most basic shortcuts to use Spotlight. Searching for a file/folder name is best done from the Finder: type the name in the search box (top right). Spotlight gives people an easy way to search for something they need on Mac. We can search the items like documents, applications, emails, contacts, music and more we need to find with Spotlight. It also provides Spotlight Suggestion for sources like Wikipedia, Bing, Maps, news, and iTunes so you can get information right in Spotlight. Here's how to use Spotlight on Mac. • • • • What Spotlight can help you find Spotlight helps you find pretty much anything on your Mac. It indexes the contents of your Mac's hard drive to make it easier to find documents, emails, apps, music, contacts, and other information. It can also help you find information on the web, perform equations, and now in High Sierra, it can even find your flight information. How to access and use Spotlight in macOS • Click on the Spotlight button in the menu bar, it looks like a magnifying glass. Or, use the Command - Space keyboard shortcut. The Spotlight search field will appear in the middle of your screen. • Type in your search query. Spotlight will return results as you type. If Spotlight isn't finding what you're looking for, you can adjust its search results to be optimized for what you need. You can also exclude specific locations of your hard disk to prevent Spotlight from searching information you'd prefer to keep private. How to customize Spotlight search results • Click on the menu button on the top left of your screen. • Click System Preferences. • Click on Spotlight. • Click the Checkbox beside the category to change what Spotlight will show you. If it has a checkmark, then those results will be displayed; if it doesn't, then those results will not be displayed. ![]() How to hide content from Spotlight search If you have sensitive documents in a certain location that you never want to be searched, you can tell Spotlight to not look in those locations. • Click on the menu button on the top left of your screen. • Click System Preferences. • Click on Spotlight. • Click on the Privacy tab. • Click on the add button. It's the + sign at the bottom left of the window. Recently, I noted that the All My Files feature present in macOS for several releases until macOS 10.13 High Sierra,, replaced by an inferior Recents display—and that it couldn’t be restored. A Macworld reader wrote in to note that with the use of Spotlight’s lightly documented underlying query language, you could restore the function. I avoided this in this previous column for two reasons, but if you’re willing to go through some configuration and picky details, you could find it worthwhile. First, it requires learning some programming-like syntax to construct a query, and even the tiniest error in typing or construction will keep it from working without any errors that give you clues of how to fix it.
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