#TodayILearned that #macOS#Spotlight will not index #iCloud Drive documents unless they are fully downloaded—unless you are searching for keywords stored in their extended attributes.
This is a surprisingly big oversight. The more you use #iCloudDrive to store your documents (which Apple somewhat encourages you to do), the more likely you won’t be able to find them by searching for their content with Spotlight.
@fluder Yeah, this seems like a deferred feature that never got fully implemented. IMO any device that pushes an update to iCloud Drive should pre-index its content and push up a Spotlight sidecar file, which is always downloaded and merged into the local indexes on all endpoints.
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