Ventura Finder search results "enriched" Spotlight
I used to use the search in Finder to make smart selections of files that I wanted to manipulate. But in Ventura, the finder search results, or should I say the 'enriched' Spotlight search results, are acting completely different, and very very un-useful to me.
EXAMPLE
Current:
/Mainfolder/
/Mainfolder/001/
/Mainfolder/001/001.mp3
/Mainfolder/001/Recording 001.jpg
/Mainfolder/001/Recording 001.txt
/Mainfolder/002/
/Mainfolder/002/002.mp3
/Mainfolder/002/Recording 002.jpg
/Mainfolder/002/Recording 002.txt
I have a folder called "Mainfolder" with 100 subfolders, called "001", "002", etc.
In each subfolder are a variety of audio files and text & image-files.
I want all these files from the subfolders (the audio and the text and image-files) cozy bundled in a new folder on the desktop, so without all the numbered subfolders.
Wanted result:
/New folder/001.mp3
/New folder/002.mp3
/New folder/Recording 001.jpg
/New folder/Recording 001.txt
/New folder/Recording 002.jpg
/New folder/Recording 002.txt
What I usually would do is navigate the Finder to "Mainfolder" and do a search for ".", because the period is the common denominator for all these files bearing a file-extension.
The search results would list all the files and I could select them all and drag them to the folder I'd please and I'd be done.
Now, in Ventura when I navigate to this "Mainfolder" and do a search for "." (or anything else really), it doesn't find the files, it doesn't even show filenames as search results, it shows metadata title fields from these audio files rather than the raw filenames. Plus, it doesn't show any of these text-files that are also in these subfolders. So I could select his and move this to another folder, but I'd have no idea what files they are because I can't see the filenames! And since they are all audio titles, it's missing the text-files.
****, I don't know what the search is doing without my telling but it seems like a total random interpretation of what I'm trying to do.
Is this just happening with folders containing audio files? I'm worried.
... Where do I turn this off ?
