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Stinky The Clown

(68,476 posts) Fri Aug 3, 2012, 08:31 AM Aug 2012

A question about Spotlight in Lion

In Leopard and Snow Leopard, if you typed into Spotlight, it found the file you wanted and also told you where to find it by giving its path. Under Lion, we can still have it find files, but it now seems to be unwilling to share the path name.

Am I missing something?

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A question about Spotlight in Lion (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Aug 2012 OP

I answered my own question Stinky The Clown Aug 2012 #1

I'm still trying to duplicate that bug! REP Aug 2012 #2

Stinky The Clown

(68,476 posts)

1. I answered my own question

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 12:48 PM

Aug 2012

Enter the file name (or whatever search criteria you need to) into the Spotlight window

When the hits appear look for the one you want.

Hover your cursor over it and, when the hit is highlighted, keep hovering and hit the COMMAND/OPTION keys. The path name will appear along the bottom of the preview that opened.

I can find NO documentation for this. I simply chanced upon it.

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(21,691 posts)

2. I'm still trying to duplicate that bug!

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 08:02 PM

Aug 2012

Paths show up for me every. single. time. Maybe because I use list view?

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