Spotlight is Not the Same - MAC_1984

Spotlight simply does not do what LB does...not even remotely.

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Friday, November 23 2007 @ 11:00 AM PST

Why does anyone buy this app these days? - sherman1

and.... woohooo!!! You've saved 3 MB. How anyone can possibly think that Spotlight comes close to duplicating the functionality of LaunchBar is beyond me. Apparently you don't really use LaunchBar for all its capabilities.

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Friday, November 23 2007 @ 12:03 PM PST

Why does anyone buy this app these days? - tk.web

lol - someone got out of the wrong side of bed.

LB is by far the better product with exceptional configurability. Since it's inception I have despised Spotlight. It offers the world but Apple has tied it down based on the lowest skilled user. It's limits on configuration and the blinkers approach to finding files are good examples. If I could uninstall Spotlight I would.

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Friday, November 23 2007 @ 01:28 PM PST

Why does anyone buy this app these days? - csmithere

1. This application existed long before Spotlight ever did.
2. Spotlight is slow and clunky compared to Launchbar (or even Quicksilver) as a launcher given less fine grain controls over what you index for launching versus what you don't.
3. Spotlight doesn't let you create scripts and triggers to take place when you complete certain actions. Launchbar does.
4. I've had my Spotlight indexes get corrupted many times. That's never happened with Launchbar.

Before you start calling something a "One Trick Pony", perhaps it might help to understand the product more prior to opening your mount and making a developer sound greedy.

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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 04:29 AM PST