[LB6 Action] Spotlight (Integrated) [UPDATED]

[Jono]

Guess you have screwed up the original scripts/actions.

I mean the original action by nbjahan, and the (unmodified) scripts after that, not ones I've modified. Actually, the 'Spotlight Search by Name' does open result items for me if I hit return, but not the others.

But your script works fine. And I made some others based off that one and they also all work fine, thanks!

[Jono]

I'm still tweaking these searches (which I'm using all the time, so useful ).

How would I search for different specified document types, but as well as searching for the file name also search the tags, Spotlight comments, text content etc. At the moment they only search for the file names.

Here's what I have for a couple of them.

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      set thecmd to "mdfind -onlyin ~/ 'kMDItemDisplayName == " & quote & thequery & "*" & quote & "wc" & " && (kMDItemContentType == \"com.adobe.photoshop-image\"||kMDItemContentType == \"com.adobe.illustrator.ai-image\"||kMDItemContentType == \"com.bohemiancoding.sketch.drawing\")'"

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set thecmd to "mdfind -onlyin ~/ 'kMDItemDisplayName == " & quote & thequery & "*" & quote & "wc" & " && (kMDItemContentType == \"com.apple.iwork.pages.pages\"||kMDItemContentType == \"public.rtf\"||kMDItemContentType == \"com.microsoft.word.doc\"||kMDItemContentType == \"org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document\")'"

[Jono]

…nevermind, I've managed to figure this out.

[nbjahan]

New version available. Check the first post or
https://github.com/nbjahan/launchbar-spotlight

New Features

- Single action (Hold ^ to search by name)
- Send folders to change the search path
- Suggest search in parent folders if not found
- Check for updates , ...

[Jono]

Nice, thanks.

I guess 'Pinboard: Preferences' should be renamed to just 'Preferences'

[nbjahan]

That's because LaunchBar recent list (⌘B) will display those items. With general names, they will make no sense.

[Jono]

In that case shouldn't it be 'Spotlight Preferences' instead go 'Pinboard Preferences'?

[nbjahan]

lol Jono you got me
will fix it thanks!

[Jono]

Haha, excellent

[nbjahan]

done. now let's see if Check for updates works as expected ...

[Jono]

Yep, just checked for updates and it found the new version

[nbjahan]

New Version: 2.1.0

- Ability to change the search path by typing the folder path

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[lycopodiopsida]

Excellent work, thank you!

[Jono]

…a few years later…

Is there any way to set the sort order of the results shown? For example sort by modified date, with newest modified at the top.

[iRounak]

…a few years later…

Is there any way to set the sort order of the results shown? For example sort by modified date, with newest modified at the top.

If it is not possible to do it with mdfind, the modified date could be got via applescript and the results can be sorted before they are sent to LaunchBar for display.