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by code_biologist 915 days ago
+1 on the need for non-Spotlight options. Source code makes a mess of spotlight for everyday usage. I like Leap a lot for multimedia browsing with more precise search capabilities than spotlight: https://ironicsoftware.com/leap/
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You can remove folders from spotlight under "Spotlight Privacy". I removed my source code folders, which vastly improved search results.
100%. That's when I discovered I needed non-spotlight search to bulk search what I just excluded from spotlight.