That Spotlight issue... You might remember my gripe with Spotlight's lack of find-by-name from "the old pages". I've received many a helpful (*cough*) e-mail about it, but apart from maybe three or four, they all basically mentioned just the obvious, i.e. that you can either just try and pick the right one from Spotlight's default search (which finds far too many results, as it also searches content) or use the dreaded Cmf-F in Finder and switch around the search criteria and put part of the filename into the 'name contains' field - leaving the main search field completely empty. All of those tips have, of course, not been unknown to me. See: I've been using Tiger for quite a while now. But they don't actually solve the problem. Which is that Apple seems to think that "names are not important", to quote Douglas Adams' character Slartibartfast.
Here's to the hope that Apple will get its act together and give users a choice. For me, file names are important. - posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 05:37 [article link]