![]() MacOS Big Sur introduces the biggest design update to macOS since the introduction of Mac OS X. Previously, a contact manager like Bus圜ontacts could rely on Spotlight to watch for mail messages and maintain an activity list for each contact.Ĭontinue reading Searching Apple Mail Messages Posted on DecemDecemAuthor houdah Categories HoudahSpot Tags Apple Mail, macOS, Search macOS Big Sur Compatibility Many other utilities, scripts, and productivity tools suffer from the fact that messages, notes, and bookmarks are no longer searchable. This limitation of Core Spotlight does not only interfere with search tools. Instead, as a HoudahSpot user, you expect to find all kinds of files regardless of which application created the files. HoudahSpot does not manage or create data and thus never has data to submit to Core Spotlight. Core Spotlight is of no use to search tools like HoudahSpot. Thus the Mail application can call upon Core Spotlight to find messages. More precisely, applications are only allowed to search data they have submitted themselves. With macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple moved the indexing of Mail messages files from traditional Spotlight to “Core Spotlight.” The problem with this change is that Core Spotlight does not allow searching by third-party applications like HoudahSpot. ![]() Hold down the Option key while choosing Preferences from Default Folder X’s menu to get there.Īs usual, the change history and download links are available on the Default Folder X Release Page.The good news: HoudahSpot 6.0 can again find Apple Mail message files! And you can specify a minimum width and height for file dialogs, preventing them from coming up in a uselessly-small default size. Oh, and the secret settings dialog now lets you turn on “view-matching” for the Finder-click feature, making Default Folder X apply whatever view mode (Icon / List / Column) is used in the Finder window to the file dialog. Version 5.3.5 also offers a bunch of improvements for Default Folder X’s drawer in the Finder, fixes for bugs involving its selection of recent files and folders in Open and Save dialogs, a problem with file dialog sheets when they’re the full width of the screen, and issues with some many-button mice. It just wasn’t something I’d planned for – so now I have □ Since the big window is covering everything else, including Default Folder X, DFX didn’t work because mouse and keyboard clicks couldn’t get through. If you then choose “Other Location…” to select a folder, the attendant file dialog has to come up on top of the giant window so you can use it. The latter was an interesting (and understandable) situation: Mojave’s screen capture app basically covers the entire screen with a big, semi-transparent window to let you rubber-band select an area and whatnot. You can save screenshots to any folder you want using Mojave’s screenshot toolĬompatibility fixes for LaunchBar and CopyPaste Pro are also in version 5.3.5, as well as a fix so that Default Folder X works in the Save dialogs used by Mojave’s new screenshot utility. Posted in Default Folder X, Development, HoudahSpot, Mac Community, Tips | 1 Comment » Tags: date, Default Folder X, houdah, houdahspot, Search, tags Default Folder X also integrates with ForkLift and Path Finder, for example, because lots of people asked for it!Īnd if you haven’t tried HoudahSpot yet, go download a free demo copy now and check it out. If you have ideas for similar connections between your favorite indie applications, let the developers know – many of us are very receptive to your suggestions. It delivers more convenience and time-savings to all the folks that use both HoudahSpot and Default Folder X. I’m happy to have had the chance to collaborate with Pierre Bernard, HoudahSpot’s developer, on this workflow. Once you’ve located the file you want in HoudahSpot, Control-click on that file and use the “Default Folder X” menu to finish the round trip and send it back to the waiting file dialog (in Preview, in this case). ![]() And use HoudahSpot’s “Default Folder X” menu to send a search result to a waiting file dialog
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