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Why is Spotlight showing all this?

Asked by queenzboulevard (2553points) December 8th, 2008

This is a pic of a Spotlight search I was doing. Why is the same doc repeated with different numbers beside them? What are the numbers? Can I change something to where Spotlight will only show it once?

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damien's avatar

I think that’s spotlight finding the search query multiple times within those files and showing the line numbers. I’m not sure if you can tell it to not search inside files…

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TaoSan's avatar

hum, interesting.

Do you use any kind of versioned backup software?

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PupnTaco's avatar

You might be looking at file contents instead of file names.

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queenzboulevard's avatar

I hovered over the Spotlight results and it was searching my Gmail Inbox attachments from Mail.app, even though I have that unchecked in my Spotlight preferences AND I don’t even have those in my inbox anymore. Interesting..

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