I have a directory of bash scripts I use frequently, and I tend to launch these via Alfred Alfred in turn relies on Spotlight to index scripts, and assign them a meta content type of ‘public.unix-executable’ Since upgrading from Mavericks to El Capitan, Spotlight was treating SOME of these scripts as ‘public.data’ and Kind=Document This … Read more
Long time multi-lingual OS X user. I find it annoying when I invoje Spotlight and start typing an Apps name instead of getting “Photoshop” I get for example “Пчотосчоп” (Phonetic Russian Keyboard). I don’t name my files documents or any other creations in anything but English. The solution could be to monitor the changing state … Read more
I’ve done csrutil disable and went into Terminal and put cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/ I rebooted and it removed the Spotlight icon from the menu bar but I could no longer use command-R to open Spotlight. I tried undoing via sudo mv Search2.bundle/ Search.bundle/ but it returns mv: rename Search2.bundle/ to Search.bundle/: Read-only … Read more
I wonder, now that Edge chromium has been released it would be lovely to have links open in there other than in the old Edge. But I can’t find out how it works. Is there a special protocol that handles lockscreen links? Is there a registry key to change? and so. Answer You cannot. These … Read more
Suppose I search for chrome in spotlight search, and select the top suggestion – Google Chrome, this causes mac os to move focus to a running instance of Google Chrome, if available. Likewise, when I search iterm inside spotlight search, it takes me to a running Iterm instance instead of launching a new one. This … Read more
I’ve tried many solutions, but all of them doesn’t seem to work, ever since i did a ng generate component my-component an angular command for generating documents. after that command my laptops fans suddenly started firing, I’m assuming this is a problem with the new macos, on the previous one i just restarted and that … Read more
I can enter “Shockwave Flash Movie” in the the search field of a Finder window and find all files that are of Kind, “Shockwave Flash Movie” However, I really want a list of all files that are NOT Shockwave Flash Movie. How can I do this? Answer There are basically two ways: One is, select … Read more
I can enter “Shockwave Flash Movie” in the the search field of a Finder window and find all files that are of Kind, “Shockwave Flash Movie” However, I really want a list of all files that are NOT Shockwave Flash Movie. How can I do this? Answer There are basically two ways: One is, select … Read more
Is there any way that I could implement the functionality of being able to drag files and folders from spotlight to a finder window? Answer In Lion, Spotlight menu finally supports dragging items out of it, so you could just update OS X. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : joshua.thomas.bird , Answer Author : … Read more
I’m attempting to disable my spotlight hotkey so that I can make my Alfred hotkey CMD+Space. If I disable “Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut” through system preferences, it seems to stay disabled until I restart. After restart, the spotlight hotkey is enabled again. How do I permanently disable the spotlight key? Answer I just tried disabling … Read more
