I never used to like Spotlight on the Mac (tiger) but as I learn more about it, it gets better and better. Read the tip below from the Apple website and try the following searches I have tested and found to work in Spotlight:
If you want to narrow your search right off the bat, you can add a category when you type the term in the Search field. For example, if you’re looking for a song named “Vertigo†(by the band U2), there’s no sense in having Spotlight bring you a list of email messages from your ear doctor, right? So if you give Spotlight a hint as to what you’re looking for, you can get just songs as your Spotlight search results. Here’s how: Type “kind:music†(with no space in between or quotations), then add one space and type “Vertigo†(again, you don’t need the quotes). So your search will look like this: kind:music Vertigo. Now it will only search songs, and you’ll only get song results. Schweet!
- kind:music
- kind:image
- kind:folder
- kind:movie
- kind:email
- kind:pdf