A Spotlight search never starts a scan of your disk. The disk is always fully indexed and returns results out of the index very fast. The only exception is typically when the system is updated (or some other big event) and it reindexes everything.
That being said, as others have pointed out, there is a setting to make a Finder window search apply only to the directory in the current window.
A Spotlight search never starts a scan of your disk. The disk is always fully indexed and returns results out of the index very fast. The only exception is typically when the system is updated (or some other big event) and it reindexes everything.
That being said, as others have pointed out, there is a setting to make a Finder window search apply only to the directory in the current window.