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Spotlight not able to search email archive
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1917461" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>I don't have an answer to your query, but do understand that hitting the spacebar to preview a file causes macOS to actually open the file (if supported) to show the contents. </p><p></p><p>Search tools are doing what's similar to going to the Terminal and typing something like "cat <file>" which basically dumps the contents of the file to the screen. If the file is a plain old text file, you'll see the contents, if a binary file, you'll see gibberish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1917461, member: 110816"] I don't have an answer to your query, but do understand that hitting the spacebar to preview a file causes macOS to actually open the file (if supported) to show the contents. Search tools are doing what's similar to going to the Terminal and typing something like "cat <file>" which basically dumps the contents of the file to the screen. If the file is a plain old text file, you'll see the contents, if a binary file, you'll see gibberish. [/QUOTE]
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