OS X (Apple)

Unix based fix-it needed?

Platform and feature: search programs on Apple computers (Leopard or Tiger; 10.4 and above; Spotlight)

Problem: the document search feature of these programs produce hits when keyword(s) used appear anywhere in the document's content.

Change required: we need to limit (.pdf) document searches to the titles we've created.

Present status: we've continued to use Apple's Panther search platform, which has no such problem; new generations of Apple are not compatible with Panther.

Example: Our foundation's Schizophrenia library contains over 35,000 journal articles, housed in over 3,000 (hierarchically organized) folders, within a single (desktop) folder.

The ability to search by document TITLE within all or part of this 18.6 gb matrix (or alternatively, by folder title) is a key feature of this library.

Why Apple? Our article labels are designed to produce (simultaneously) very content-rich and easy to read information (in a complex biomedical discipline); thus, it is extremely desirable to employ: 1) longer label sizes than PCs allow; and 2) grammatical characters (e.g., apostrophe, &, ... ) that PCs do not recognize.

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