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HoudahSpot tip: Find PDF Files That Need OCR Processing blog.houdah.com/2023/12/find-a…

This 5-minute guided tour of Photos Workbench rushes you past all the landmarks and leaves you wanting. blog.houdah.com/2023/01/video-…

@Lars_asdf There is not, but the feature has been requested before. Upvote noted.

@houdah hi there, Just trying out photos workbench. Impressed so far with the features. Is there a way of deleting the raw of a raw an jpg pair with workbench?

@edwardhorsford HoudahGeo 6.3 (and soon 6.4) works fine on Apple Scilicon and macOS Ventura. It does require Rosetta to run.

@houdah Ok, thank you. Can you tell me if v6 works with Apple Silicon or has any known issues?

@houdah Hi! Is HoudaGeo still being worked on? Is an Apple Silicon / Universal version coming?

@edwardhorsford The next HoudahGeo upgrade is still in a planning stage. Pricing and upgrade policy have not yet been set.

@houdah That's great to hear, thanks! I've got a license for v5 currently. If I upgrade to v6 today, would that include any Apple Silicon release?

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@Sinabhfuil Remove "Apple Mail messages" if you are not using it. Otherwise, check the error message. Check Search > Search By to see if you are searching for "1914" in name, content, or any text.

@jEdo_k Please re-do the Bluetooth pairing. I.e. have both devices forget one another. Make sure the Type2Phone application is open and running during the process. Initiate pairing from the iPhone.

@houdah Since I upgraded my mac to monteray 2 days ago, your app doesn't type to my phone any more. Reinstalled it but nothing's changed.

@somelinguist Indeed, Text Preview highlight follow a more simplistic logic than what you can set up in search: case/diacritic-insensitive, no boolean logic.

@houdah So all of the files in the above search contain at least one instance of lowercase "english", but it's nearly impossible in many of them to find that instance in the preview.

@houdah I was trying to follow the instructions in the user manual to do case and diacritic sensitive searches, but it doesn't seem to be working. Are the instructions still valid? I have the latest HoudahSpot and macOS. Thanks!

@somelinguist Quick Look cannot be customized. That is the main reason why HoudahSpot also offers Text Preview where it can highlight words and limit ("fold") the preview to relevant paragraphs

@houdah I love Text Preview in HoudahSpot but was wondering if there is a way to also highlight results in Quick Look? Or better, if both could be used side by side…so clicking on a result in Text Preview scrolled to the highlighted result in Quick Look. Is that possible?

@kerguio Did you press "space" after selecting the action in LaunchBar? LauchBar should then ask for text input.

@houdah yup - did that - same thing. Oddly, from the script editor, HS opens, but not with the Mail template...

@houdah your HoudahSpot LaunchBar Action is great. but the Apple mail search one (blog.houdah.com/2019/05/how-to…) doesn't seem to work so well... It opens a finder selector, asking for a folder to search. Is that expected?

@Sinabhfuil No. No such plans

HoudahGeo tip: Match photos to a GPS track log by placing one photo to a known location on the track. HoudahGeo will figure out camera clock settings and time offset. It can then geocode the rest of the photos. buff.ly/31IVRKi

@mjasinski You are running an older version of the plug-in. Mail sometimes does that even after you have installed a new version. See: forums.houdah.com/post/apple-mai…

@houdah hi, macOS 11.6 complains that the HoudahSpot mail plugin is not compatible

HoudahSpot tips & tricks: Efficient macOS File Searches using Filters buff.ly/38pn70w Filter search results by path, parent folder or folder name in path. See only the files you are interested in.