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Nov 11, 2011 at 15:36 comment added Gordon Davisson By default, Spotlight indexes everything but Finder excludes system files from your searches. There's a way to change this in a Finder search (there are optional search parameters to include system files and invisible files), or use mdfind (e.g. mdfind -onlyin /System -name .framework). It also censors results to include only files you have permissions for; to see everything, search as root with sudo mdfind.
Nov 11, 2011 at 11:48 history edited nohillside CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 29, 2011 at 22:17 comment added chiggsy You can force it to index everything. Martín you were correct, it would have been better to use AIDE or tripwire. It does make a pretty good uninstaller though.
Jan 27, 2011 at 9:55 comment added Martin Marconcini @Harv Spotlight indexes only "Everything within the scope of your permissions", but won't go to ~/Library/Cache or Preferences by default unless you activate "Other" in the config. Also, /System and such are not indexed. As for the OP's question, I'm not sure that there's a "Metadata" editor to read the index for a drive. But others may be more clever and come up with an answer.
Jan 27, 2011 at 7:44 comment added Harv @Fake Name - k, great. Colour me corrected. And submit a response, then. :)
Jan 27, 2011 at 7:22 comment added Fake Name @Harv - Uh... LOTS of the system stuff is not indexed.
Jan 27, 2011 at 6:29 comment added Harv Er. Everything is indexed unless you explicitly tell it not to be. I think there are instances of external drives not being indexed by default, but I'd have to look it up. I suppose you could put together some conditions and pass them to find.
Jan 27, 2011 at 4:57 history edited chiggsy CC BY-SA 2.5
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