Finder search doesn't understand its own categories

Jan 26, 2009 08:39



Here I am using the finder search capabilities.



Why is the Kind set to Other? If i set it to Music, it doesn't match.

There's a number of errors here.

  1. Kinds are nonoverlapping. What if I have a presentation which is in fact music. It has to either be not music, or not a presentation. Or what if I have a script written in python. Is it a document, an application, or a text file?
  2. The Kind for this music is set to Other. How many hints does the damn thing need? It is called "Audiotrack". It is stored in the Music folder that the damn fool thing created for me to store my music. Get a clue, Apple.
  3. There is no observable way to tell the Finder that the file really is music. The help offers nothing. The internet offers nothing.

So there we have it, there are selectors in the finder which don't do what they say, and have undocumented, unimprovable behavior, which doesn't get what you want. Good job implementing this nest of rats.

That doesn't even get into how the substring search for files doesn't find files. I was looking for bruiser.txt, which doesn't show up at all, for any Kind.
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