Amen. App-store search is an offense sham, wasting users' time and stealing from developers.

And +1 to pitiful Mail search.

But Apple has long suffered from a peculiar learning disability in regard to search. Not only does Finder fail to find files matching search strings that it's showing you IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY... but both Finder and Spotlight provide no option to include WHERE it found stuff in search results. You can't even add "path" to the result columns as an OPTION. So if it finds a bunch of files with the same name... oh well.

Leave it to Apple to field a search facility that refuses to tell you WHERE it found stuff.

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m-a-t-t-i 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In spotlight search, you can hold down cmd to show the path of the selected file. And cmd + enter will open the containing folder in finder.

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port11 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Finder issue can be alleviated if you include the path bar in your Finder window, at least it is so before Tahoe. So you highlight a search result and the path bar shows you where it is.

Search on iOS Mail is… what is it doing? I can see the e-mail right there, but Mail can’t find it. Especially if it needs to be « connected to power and on Wi-Fi ». Why?

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sunrunner 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not sure if this still works as everything gets a bit more broken in every new macOS, but context menu ‘Reveal in Finder’ used to be my way to figure out where the search result was.

My latest macOS gripe is that the ability to copy text out of iTunes (something ridiculous like, say, an album description) has...just disappeared? I’d love to know what UI framework shenanigans just straight up break text selection.

	▲	janfoeh 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Aah, don't worry, that's why they introduced system-wide text recognition in images, powered by Apple Intelligence! Just take a screenshot of that album description, and ... sigh