True about Tiger email & Spotlight???
pompo (998 points) | Thu, 2005-05-05 21:38Can anybody confirm it? If it is that would be great!!!
"Below is a quote from a Tiger user that found this 'bug' However it sounds like a plus for users that mistakenly trashed and emptied a file they later needed. It mentions mail but I wonder if ir is any file not overwritten.
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Spotlight: Finding deleted Mail.app messages? MacFixIt reader Ray Kloss reports that Spotlight is finding e-mail messages that have been deleted, and emptied from the trash in Mail.app 2.0.
Ray writes:
"Try this: Type a letter with some unique words in Mail. Send it. Delete the file in Sent Mail. Empty the trash in the Mail program. Do a search in the Mail search box for the unique word in the letter. It won't find it.
"Now go to Spotlight and type the word. The Mail letter will show up. You can even open it and read it (I'm not sure where it is). I can do a search from inside Mail and not find it (because it is deleted) but Spotlight will show it to anyone who desires."
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I wonder if Mail.app has some sort of strange cache mode or could it have something to do with this, " move deleted messages to a new folder " , as found in mail.app preferences....
In a way this is really bad, but SOOOO useful when that very rare occasion happens that you didnt want to delete that email, im sure we've all been there.
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I've heard that if you delete text in a file (any kind that gets indexed, at least), Spotlight "remembers" the deleted text after the file is closed. I don't know for how long though. Anybody up for some empirical experimentation?