![]() ![]() Using the refresh buttons does not CHANGE anything on your system: They just update the display to reflect the current state of the system. FastTasks uses the same information that you’d get if you used the ‘top’ command in Terminal.īy the way, there’s a refresh button (keyboard shortcuts shown) for both the memory usage and network addresses, as the displays do NOT update continuously. These are pretty good approximations to what AM shows on my 10.8, but there are discrepencies on some versions of OS X between what ‘top’ shows and what Activity Monitor shows. Just a courtesy reminder, but the real value here is the summary of usage stats underneath. Very useful if you’re using proxies and want to check whether they’re working. Useful to copy and paste if you need your local IP/ network node. Just select the address and paste it into Safari’s search bar. This can be useful for troubleshooting or if you need to access your router’s Admin page. I sometimes forget which particular volume I’m booted into, so this is vital info for me and anyone who’s regularly booting in and out of different installations. Here’s a detailed breakdown of functions with possible uses.ĭisplays your current OS Version and build number The window consists of two columns: left-side for info, right-side for actions. This is unacceptable with the structure that I have compiled.FastTasks allows you to achieve a number of things that you would normally have to roll up your sleeves and do in Terminal or AppleScript. Spotlight will index a document up to around 8.2K and no further. I tried this experiment in another document with another name with the same results. The last place that Spotlight worked was around 8.1K characters in this document. The first article with the name Kerviel was at 9.1K characters. I kept moving the name further into the document until Spotlight didn't find it anymore. I moved the name further into the document and it still worked OK. Finally, today, I put in the name kerviel early in the document, like around 20 characters. I put in Spotlight some earlier names of individuals from this document and it worked OK. I tried the methods of forced indexing and nothing worked. I attempted to find this document with Spotlight to add another article to it and Spotlight didn't find it. I had compiled these articles in the FinancialMarkets/Global document. I have been following the French trader Kerviel and his exploits with his enormous losses in the marketplace that stunned the French banking industry. The FinancialMarkets/Global document is at present around 32.8K, with articles beginning around 1995. I label them FinancialMarkets/GlobalA, and FinancialMarkets/GlobalB, and etc. If a document reaches 100K, it doesn't register in the info frame at the bottom of the window, so I keep them under this figure. When the documents reach around 95K characters, I begin a new document. Articles relating to this title are compiled in this particular document. I compile documents of news articles in chronological order, one after another, on a particular subject one is entitled FinancialMarkets/Global. I did some experimenting with Spotlight and Finder and found what I believe to be a problem. I am using a PowerMac G4 with OSX 10.4.11 Tiger. Still this is a cumbersome workaround, and although I hope it will "solve" the problem, it is a shame to have to do this at all. Leaf as an alternative to the Finder for viewing, finding files. HoudaSpot for a useful front end to Spotlight, and Doing spot checks I haven't found a file that is still not visible to Spotlight.ĮasyFind can locate files that Spotlight misses, but I prefer Spotlight if only it were less bug prone. I then made sure my mirror backup was up to date, and I then did this procedure to my entire documents folder (approx 8300 files). ![]() NameMangler and first tried changing the file names in a folder that had roughly 100 files, then returned them to their former state. So I used a batch file renaming utility called Also I recently migrated my info from a G4 to a MacPro, and it seems that the files which Spotlight is missing are those created before Leopard - new ones do not have this problem. ![]() What I did find is that opening the file and then closing it it then appears in Spotlight. I have the same pattern of being able to look at a file in a folder, but Spotlight did not find it by filename, even after rebuilding the Spotlight database.
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