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I've tried reindexing yeah but it still does it.

I normally run spotlight from the looking glass icon in the menu bar so there is no 'current folder'. What happens is that it turns up a whole ton of XML files, dat file etc instead of the files I'm looking for. They appear only later and at the end.

In the beginning it had much more sense to keep that stuff out. And yeah I can exclude folders but I don't really want to have to micromanage that stuff. The whole point of Spotlight was not having to do that.



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