![]() ![]() Never used FoxTrot but it has a very good reputation, although I think you’d need to spend $120 on the FoxTrot Professional version to match HoudahSpot’s search capabilities. I’ve used HoudahSpot since 2008, and according to my records the app’s total cost including two upgrades was about $45. You can even craft a Keyboard Maestro macro to take a HoudahSpot PDF result and open the document in a PDF viewer like Skim and take you to the result, which you can see here. I have however completely replaced Spotlight with HoudahSpot for everyday searches of all kinds, including pdfs, and even changed the default Command-Spacebar to invoke HoudahSpot instead of Spotlight. (One of the reasons I don’t use DevonThink anymore.) I own DevonSphere and it does a serviceable job but I rarely need to exclusively search PDFs and I don’t find it that pleasurable to use. Which one do you find the most effective, and why? So far, in the Mac hemisphere, the above 4 apps seem the leaders. It is very important to have a powerful searching tool to find that specific concept or idea, or term. We have packs of pdf files lying around (organized in Be or other). Trying to search for Bartok pieces on my Dropbox.PDF-search vs Devonthink vs Foxtrot vs Devonsphere If you go forward with it, your Spotlight wont work properly any more: I would recommend everybody - DO NOT accept a Dropbox request to update to a newest version and to move your data to user/CloudStorage location as it brakes a Spotlight search o my mac system completely! Here are 2 screenshots: For my huge disappointment - the same procedure, the same result. But after I got an email from Dropbox encouraging me to accept the update, I thought, probably Dropbox team did some corrections and this time I will succeed. Hm.I thought I wont do it, because it was possibly a reason why my Spotlight didn't work any more. Dropbox asked me again to migrate the data, because otherwise I "wont be able" to use the all functionality with my macOS 13.1. ![]() So I installed Dropbox again like I described and it worked again perfectly. Hi, like I wrote before, a newest Dropbox update broke my Spotlight completely. I do not understand why Dropbox team tries to change a very well working system with a version which causes this massive issue. I do not remember that macs could be able to search with Spotlight their Libraries destinations. ![]() I think a main problem is a files destination, which a newer version of Dropbox tries to change - from user folder (where my Pictures, Music etc are saved) to user/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. So the only way to work is to ignore completely Dropbox warnings. My files are saved again to the user destination. Dropbox tells it wont work with my macOS 13.1 but it does. The only backside of it is, that Dropbox asking me in a very obsessive way now to update to a new version - after I did a clean Install from an official Dropbox website 1-2 hours ago. Do not update! Dropbox will ask you about it straight after you do this clean install. Delete all the Data from new Dropbox destination, which I am quite sure causes this issue: user/Library/CloudStorage/Dropboxħ. Uncheck all synced folders in Dropbox preferencesģ. A new user didn't solve this problem as well - there were the same ridiculous icons of a thin Apple Finder.Ģ. In SafeMode I was able to open files and I saw file preview, but I still wasn't able to open same files "on place" clicking with cmd. First - usual process with a first level. Clicking on it with or without Cmd just did nothing. In a Spotlight popover I saw all the date from Dropbox, but instead showing a preview icons, there was a thin Apple Finder picture. I wasn't able to work any more in a normal usual way. I didn't take some screenshots.Ī Mac/Dropbox behaviour was quite ridiculous. Sorry cannot specify which version it was, because I deinstalled it yesterday already.
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