Spotlight Plugin: Ziplight 1.3

Mac OS X provides native support for the popular ZIP archive format. But have you ever wished Spotlight would search the file names inside your zipped archives? That’s precisely what the free Ziplight Spotlight importer plugin does. Take a look.

The Ziplight Spotlight Plugin doesn’t unzip each archived file, so you can’t search for file contents. Instead, Ziplight searches the file names inside ZIP archives. Why? This allows for a more granular search without slowing down Spotlight. Pretty neat.

installing ziplight

1. Download and open the Ziplight disk image.
2. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard → Double-click the plug-in icon.
   Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger → Copy the plugin to the /Library/Spotlight folder.
3. Log out and log back in (or restart your Mac).