this is what grep is for. Why do I need a service constantly indexing my system and wasting resources for the few times a month I might need to run grep <string>?
Ah yes, grep's famous support of PDF and Office documents will surely come in handy. As will its image OCR capabilities.
Oh it doesn't have those things so is a non-option.
Tahoe in general sucks but Spotlight has been a pretty good local search for nearly twenty years. The image OCR added in Sonoma made it even more useful.
zapzupnz|1 month ago
And then you'll have to wait for grep to trawl every folder to find the right file rather than consult an optimised index.
giantrobot|1 month ago
Oh it doesn't have those things so is a non-option.
Tahoe in general sucks but Spotlight has been a pretty good local search for nearly twenty years. The image OCR added in Sonoma made it even more useful.