Questions about Spotlight, a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
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Finder spotlight tool not “grepping” through all file types?
We've got this development stack that's mostly javascript, and if I'm looking for a variable definition or something I can use Finder's spotlight tool to easily find the file that contains the ...
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Spotlight doesn't work anymore in OS X Mountain Lion
I can't get Spotlight to search for any documents.
When I search the Finder for documents, nothing happens and the Spotlight search through the menu bar only shows up web searches.
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Mac - spotlight stuck on top
How do I get rid of it? It doesn't show up on task manager. It isn't dead, it responds to the mouse wheel and scrolls up and down.
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Remove all references to Parallels 7 Windows 7 VM programs
My system has been polluted with references to programs residing in a Windows 7 VM in Parallels 7.
For example, Windows programs show up in Spotlight, and in Safari settings under General->Default ...
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Document files with incorrect date stamps
Often the document files I create, modify and save show up only to have incorrect date stamps, as if they haven't been indexed correctly (or at all). This happens with any document file type ...
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Why does “ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2” appear thousands of times in my system.log?
Just now, I looked at Console Messages and system.log in the Console application. I saw thousands of repetitions of messages like the following:
Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
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Add spotlight indexing for CSV files
On my system (Mountain Lion) Spotlight doesn't do a full-text search for comma-separated values, but I can search them with Spotlight if I rename them to .txt for example.
Is there a way that I can ...
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indexing svn repositories via spotlight
Is there a way to have spotlight index an svn repository on a Mac server?
I have thought of doing an export and indexing that, but how about indexing the repository itself?
I am aware of web-based ...
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External hard drive not indexed by Spolight on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I recently bought a new hard drive and it is not indexed by Finder. I tried to get it re-indexed by following this tutorial: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330114-263.html and I even tried ...
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Search across multiple OS X computers via offline indexing
A feature I would love to see in Spotlight or some other Search/Indexing application would be the ability to search multiple desktops even when they are not currently connected via AFP/Bonjour or ...
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How do you fix an app icon that got associated with a file type in spotlight?
When I try and search for something using spotlight, all application results show the .c file extension icon instead of the actual app icon you would expect to see for FireFox, Safari, Mail etc. Very ...
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/.fseventsd (File System Event Store) is empty?
For some reason my /.fseventsd directory (for the File System Event Store) is empty. I suspect this isn't normal, especially because the .fseventsd directory on my external drives have about 15 files ...
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Spotlight no longer able to index or search Mail.app
For a while now Spotlight has been unable to index Mail.app messages on my 10.6 system. In system.log I always see sections like:
Jun 30 13:34:43 macbook mdworker[8819]: Error loading ...
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Finder Search attribute “Tags”
It looks like the search attribute "Tags" is no longer available in the Mountain Lion Finder. I used this to quickly find Open Meta Taggged files on my Mac by means of a Smart Folder. Is there an ...
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“Open in Finder” dock command opens Preview instead
When I use the "Open In Finder" command in any Dock Folder Preview opens and scans the entire folder opening any file it can recognise. The same thing happens when I select an item in from the search ...
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Search across networked drives that are only sometimes connected
I've got networked drives at work and networked drives at home. What's a way to set up search so that it automatically applies searches to each drive when connected without having to rebuild the index ...
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“Search files” in a NAS using AFP and Samba?
I've a Synology NAS with all data from our Mac company division, 1 Terabyte of data.
The problem is that the "search" files isn't working. Before, we used Spotlight with success: it works, and it was ...
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Mac OS X Lion, can't find network files over SMB protocol using the Spotlight
I tried to find some files in a network volume mounted in a Mac OS X Lion over SMB using Spotlight. Didn't work.
BUT, when I tried the same search from a Mac OS X Snow Leopard it worked perfectly.
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Is there a way Spotlight indexes my Skim bookmarks/notes ?
I find Skim is a great pdf file reader and want to spend a great deal of time adding notes and bookmarks to some of the pdf files I have.
I know Spotlight indexes pdf files but it doesn't seem to ...
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Spotlight has been indexing for 3 months [closed]
I have had a major problem with my Spotlight, it has been indexing for 3 months.
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Spotlight can't see renamed label in Lion
Spotlight has an operator, -label, that lets you search for files with a certain color label applied (e.g. Red, Green.) A dropdown auto-populates with label colors when you type the operator into a ...
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Spotlight menu shows results, but Finder window doesn't
When I type anything into the Spotlight menu in the top right corner, I get the normal list of top results. But if I then click "Show All", or if I just go to the Finder and initiate a search there, ...
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How do I temporarily exclude a folder from a search?
I often use spotlight to locate documents quickly. The one annoying thing is that I often email documents to share them and spotlight will find the version of the document indexed in my mailbox ...
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How can I view the items in the Spotlight cache?
I'd like to view the data spotlight has imported. Is this possible?
EDIT: For example I can do this:
mdutil -svvv /Volumes/h8rdrive
and find out this volume was indexed.
I'd kind of like to ...
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How to delete email messages from Spotlight search on iPhone?
I have a iPhone 4S running iOS 6. Spotlight seems to find deleted e-mails on iPhone, how can I delete e-mails permanently from Spotlight results?
Could this potentially be a bug in iOS 6? I am ...
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Change Spotlight's Top Hit?
Say I have two apps that match a search in spotlight (e.g. utility), it seems that Spotlight chooses the first application (sorted alphabetically) as the Top Hit. Is there any way to change this so ...
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How can I hide the privacy tab from Spotlight.prefpane?
I am using spotlight search on my MacBook, and am excluding a few folders from spotlight search. My problem with Apple's method of excluding the folders is that excluding them actually calls attention ...
