http://www.mcelhearn.com/2007/11/14/spotlights-secret-search-syntax/ Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:06:22 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2007/11/14/spotlights-secret-search-syntax/#comment-681 allenwatson Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:30:31 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=309#comment-681 In Leopard, you can now combine AND and OR criteria, or even NOT. Normally the multiple criteria you enter are ANDed. But... Use the full Spotlight from Finder's Find command. Leave the first condition, Kind is All, and press the Option key. The + sign at the right of that criteria changes to an ellipsis, …. Click it, and you get a new condition that accepts multiple sub-conditions, governed by a popup that lets you select Any, All, or None. You can have several ANDed criteria, and one of them can be a set of ANY (which is ORed criteria). So, for instance, Name contains 'topic' and (Kind is Word OR Kind is BBEdit). In Leopard, you can now combine AND and OR criteria, or even NOT. Normally
the multiple criteria you enter are ANDed. But… Use the full Spotlight from
Finder’s Find command. Leave the first condition, Kind is All, and press the
Option key. The + sign at the right of that criteria changes to an ellipsis, ….
Click it, and you get a new condition that accepts multiple sub-conditions,
governed by a popup that lets you select Any, All, or None. You can have several
ANDed criteria, and one of them can be a set of ANY (which is ORed criteria). So,
for instance, Name contains ‘topic’ and (Kind is Word OR Kind is BBEdit).

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