Spotlight is a tool to search the contents on Mac. The search is efficient with Spotlight as it focuses on Metadata. By configuring the spotlight on Mac you can go for a more effective search.
- Go to System Preferences and Open Spotlight Panel.
- You can check the check Boxes of items to be included in the Spotlight searches. (Eg Applications, System Preferences etc)
- You can choose your preferable "Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut" (to launch spotlight) as any function key. The default choice is command + space.
- You can choose your preferable "Spotlight window keyboard shortcut" (to launch spotlight search result window) as any function key. The default choice is option + command + space.
How to prevent spotlight from searching certain locations?
At times, you don't want the spotlight to search certain sensitive locations on your MAC. To do that,
- Click Privacy tab on Spotlight Panel
- Click the Add button (+) and browse the folder you like to prevent from spotlight search and click Choose.
- You can also drag and drop the sensitive folder into the list under the Privacy tab.
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