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I've had a hard time tracking down a way to search for documents of a specific type between two dates in Spotlight. Maybe it's not possible? I'd like to be able to type something like this in Spotlight:
kind:pages modified:>151120&<=151126
Which would then return Pages documents modified between November 21st and 26th, 2015. I've tried various date formats and searching for (Spotlight) alternatives, but no luck yet.
Search by Kind One of the most useful ways to narrow down a search is by using the kind: keyword. This allows you to restrict your list of results to a certain file format. For instance, if you type time machine kind:pdf, Spotlight will pull up only PDF files containing the words "time" and "machine". You can also limit your search to e-mail messages, music files, System Preferences, applications, and more.
While the original Spotlight recognized only a limited number of file types, the Leopard version can look for files created by specific applications, as well as certain file formats. Searching for kind:mp3 or kind:tiff will find files in one of those formats, and searching for kind:pages or kind:powerpoint will show only documents created in one of those programs. For a list of useful keywords, see “My Kind of Keyword.” But remember, for the keywords to work, you must have the appropriate categories enabled in Spotlight’s preferences.
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I don't know of a third party solution, but I do know that Spotlight can do all of those things, except for #6, but that's more of a function of Word than Spotlight.
Best Answer
The date format needs to be same as the one that you set in
system preferenceIf your date format is same as the screenshot attached, then the search will become:
kind:pages modified:>11/20/15 modified:<=11/26/15Otherwise, you'll need to change the date format to the one that you have set in your
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