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Offline sunlit

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When using search option on mac version, why the "keywords" parameters have no "does not contain" option? How do I construct a search that would return files with certain keywords, at the same time excluding files with certain keywords? E.g. I would like to find images keyworded with "animals", but at the same time exclude images that contain "tiger" keyword? Given that some images do contain both "animals" and "tiger" keywords?

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Re: search on mac - where is the "does not contain" keyword parameter?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 12:00:40 PM »
There is no way to do what you're asking.

I have no workaround for you at this time.

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Re: search on mac - where is the "does not contain" keyword parameter?
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 12:53:29 PM »
Hi Kirk, thanks for such a prompt reply,
it seems strange, given that mac os spotlight provides for boolean searches with "NOT" or minus sign parameters, and the PM search is using the spotlight API.
That really limits search capability considerably, please consider this as a feature request then!