cmacminn Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 File search seems not to understand the hyphen (-) as a normal character. For example, I have thousands of files with names like "lubbers-prl-2014.pdf" and "lovoll-pre-2004.pdf". A file search for "prl" or "pre" will find them, along with lots of other things, but a file search for "-prl-" or "-pre-" will not. I think this used to work, but the behavior seems to have changed. How can I change this back? There may just be a relevant setting hiding somewhere... Link to comment
Andrew Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 File search seems not to understand the hyphen (-) as a normal character. For example, I have thousands of files with names like "lubbers-prl-2014.pdf" and "lovoll-pre-2004.pdf". A file search for "prl" or "pre" will find them, along with lots of other things, but a file search for "-prl-" or "-pre-" will not. I think this used to work, but the behavior seems to have changed. How can I change this back? There may just be a relevant setting hiding somewhere... If this has worded in the past, it would have been a behavioural change in the way the OS X treats words when doing a metadata query which may have broken this. Try searching for *pre- in Alfred, this should wildcard the start of the word. Cheers, Andrew Link to comment
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