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When I search from the finder spotlight is working as expected.

When pressing cmd+space and entering the same query I only get results from Safari's history.

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The index is OK and the results are correct when searching with the Finder and with mdfind on the command line. Is only the spotlight window (cmd+space) that is not working.

Edit 2

Rebuilding the index does not change the behaviour

Any hint on how could I solve the problem?

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  • what happens if Safari is closed when you run command?
    – Natsfan
    May 8, 2018 at 23:02
  • @jmh The same even with Safari closed
    – Matteo
    May 9, 2018 at 4:23

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You have some or more items disabled in System Preferences / Spotlight, I was able to replicate your issue completely by turning off everything but Bookmarks & History. Check the items you want searched and see if that shows documents and other things as well.

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