Funny. I can copy-and-paste a file name direct from the actual file,
into command*F or into Spotlight to find it. Sometimes, it will not be
found.

And that reminds me ‹ what's the difference anyway between Spotlight
and Command*F. Are they two iterations of the same engine or are they
completely different tools? If different..why?

I'm doing this very carefully. There's no chance I'm making some silly
error. I locate a file in the Finder and copy its name. Then I hit
Command*F, turn "Kind" into "Name", make sure I have "Contains" and
paste the file name into the search field. Then I click "Computer"
and...nothing.

It only happens sometimes. I discover it because I do a search for a
file I _know_ is somewhere and it's not found. So I do it the hard way
and find it. Then I work backwards as detailed above to see what went
wrong with the first search.

I'm looking at the file I want, right now. Nothing unusual about it
except...it's inside a PGP disk. (an open one, of course. Duh.) If I
copy it to the desktop, then it's found. But, even if I click "Others"
and specifically choose that disk (instead of just relying on
"Computer" it is still not found and neither are any of its
"cell-mates." Spotlight is also blind to those files.

It's a Nikon ,NEF file. I copied a Word document into the PGP DIsk and
it can be found OK. So the assumption is that there is something that
causes "Find" and Nikon .NEF files to be incompatible. But what?

The machine is a G5 dual 2000 with adequate RAM (4.5 GB) and nothing
unusual installed.

Runnng DiskWarrior and repairing permissions have no effect.

Ideas?

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