OS X Mavericks :: Why Does Spotlight Not Show File Paths

Aug 27, 2014

For some reason when I use finder, I see all related files, but it doesn't have a "pop up" where the path to that file is. I have gone into spotlight preferences and can't seem to find a button or setting that allows me to see paths. 

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Mac Pro, Other OS, early 2009 8 core 2.4Ghz Mavericks

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How can I make spotlight show the directory location of a found file? 

Previous Mac search engines would show the directory location of a found file.  This feature seems to be missing from spotlight in Lion.  Am I using it correctly?

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The reason this matters is the disk with the pictures is duplicated and then connected to an Oppo media center.  I find files I need on the Oppo by going to the directory associated with the files, i.e. "Next Issue".  Since those files originally were in a photo stream directory  they still reside there.  So unless I can remember thousands of file locations it can't be found on the Oppo, which doesn't have a search function for an externally attached drive. 

I suppose that I could go to each directory, select everything, and do a relocate master.  But after a long night of organizing if I don't remember which projects where changed then that means relocating up to 100 directories and 70,000 files ….

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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

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Nov 9, 2008

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Jun 24, 2010

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Jun 19, 2012

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Jun 25, 2014

I have a new USB 2/3 portable external drive, the kind without a spinning disk. I have been using Super Duper! to make a bootable backup, but it has been taking forever (3+ days) to copy my 435 GB of data.  

When writing back, someone at Super Duper support asked if I had added my drive to Spotlight Privacy. I looked this up in the Apple knowledge base, but no definition turned up.

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May 16, 2010

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Yes it opens a folder etc, BUY WHERE IS THAT FOLDER?  I've wasted more time looking for "the folder" it found than I care to mention. 

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Jun 30, 2014

I have a number of Mac's (all running Mavericks), connecting to a shared folder on a Mac we use as a 'server' (it doesn't run server software though, just Snow Leopard client). 

Does Mavericks Mac's use the 'spotlight index' of this shared, networked, Snow Leopard Mac, or when we search it, it's just searching the actual file structure? 

I'm having issues with searching this networked Mac (some files not being found and then a on later search they appear), and I don't know whether a rebuilding of the spotlight index on the networked Mac is a relevant troubleshooting step. 

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Interesting that even using the Alfred add-on, I can type the app name in and again don't get it in the search at all. 

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My macbook pro config:

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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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