searched the text of word, pages, PDF, other documents. Spotlight
doesn't come close. because before my hard drive crashed (and i got
had to without it. Booerns to LOSING functionality. I'm still hoping
> I'd like to withdraw my own message (from John, below) -- at least for
> now. Google has better things to do than to maintain Desktop forever.
> Basically I'm using Spotlight (not QSB) to replace Google Desktop.
> When Desktop came out I stopped using Spotlight, so haven't seen it
> for a while. But now it seems to be much more useful than it was. Why
> have the overhead of an extra index for Desktop, if that's no longer
> necessary?
> At first look, QSB seems to be much worse than Spotlight at searching
> for text inside files. Anyway, in practice I know whether I want to
> search in my computer, or search the Web with Google -- so putting
> them both together in QSB has little benefit, and can have some cost
> in time to search, and space to display the results (including the
> ones I'm not looking for).
> Spotlight isn't perfect at finding text inside of files, even in Apple
> Mail messages. But so far I haven't bothered to rebuild the Google
> Desktop index to see if it's better than Spotlight for this. Will do
> that before deciding to upgrade to 10.6.
> The confusion around QSB may be due to Google's understandable
> reluctance to say that Google Desktop is being phased out in favor of
> Apple's Spotlight.
> John, aka RepliCounts
> PS: The OSX 10.5 system, data, and Spotlight index are all fresh --
> maybe part of why Spotlight works so well. I backed up my data (2
> copies on separate Firewire drives, kept at two different locations --
> plus an additional archival backup NOT refreshed monthly, just in
> case), then securely erased and re-installed everything -- mainly to
> create an additional, 25 gig bootable administrative partition on the
> 150 gig disk, for easier maintenance and data recovery especially
> while traveling. Several gigs showed up on the drive, as if from
> nowhere. Of course the clean re-install gets rid of fragmentation, and
> removes all deleted OSX files forever (but not deleted data inside an
> application's database -- you should compress, rebuild, or whatever
> for that). It's easier and better to maintain a computer with two
> bootable partitions; and since we have lots of cheap disk space these
> days, why not?
> Incidentally I also keep a small administrative user account on the
> main partition. Partly that's because I like to let the Mac laptop
> start up without entering a password every time -- a security risk,
> but then everything I care about is encrypted anyway (the high walls
> around small areas philosophy). In addition, however, it's best to run
> without administrative access when you don't need it.
> On Oct 11, 5:27 pm, john wrote:
> > I hope Google keeps supporting it. The new Quick Search Box is fine,
> > but doesn't replace Desktop.
> > I'm on OSX 10.5, using both, and in no hurry to upgrade to Snow
> > Leopard.
> > John
> > On Oct 7, 10:52 pm, keithck73 wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have a new iMac running OS 10.6.1. I'm getting the following message
> > > when I try to install Google Desktop:
> > > Google Desktop can’t be installed on this computer.
> > > Google Desktop is not supported on this version of Mac OS X
> > > Is it really not supported??
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