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Spotlight re-indexing takes too long or doesn't work
Issue
After forcing Spotlight to reindex, no files or directories can be found.
Setup
I've got a MacBook Pro 15" 2017 with a 512 GB SSD: 250 GB main volume (36 free) and a BOOTCAMP partition (not ...
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Spotlight can't find apps or folder, only seaches the web
My Spotlight can't find any apps, even the native ones. It only returns results from web searches. With a little googling I found out that a pretty common solution to that is to rebuild the indexes. ...
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Get Spotlight to search in Caskroom subdirs (which is now in /usr/local/)
I'm using Homebrew with Caskroom and since a recent update, it installs the apps downloaded through brew cask within /usr/local/Caskroom/
I always used Spotlight to find and open these apps, but now ...
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How to search LaTeX -documents in Spotlight?
I have reproduced the problem now also in El Capitan with new components (motherboard, 3x SSD) in my Macbook Air 2013-mid.
I have had clean installation of OS X (El Capitan, Yosemite) while doing the ...
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Force Splotlight to search a subfolder
Background:
I moved the Microsoft User Data from ~/Documents to ~/Library/Preferences because I didn't want Google Drive to sync my Office files. I can run Office products fine, but I can't search my ...
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How to force Spotlight to index content inside a package?
I wish to use Spotlight to search inside my Papers 3 library package (i.e., a 'bundle') as the search functionality within the application is broken and/or hamstrung. Is there any way I can force ...
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Include files from secondary hard drive in spotlight searches
I have an SSD as my boot partition and a HDD for all my documents on my Mac (OS X Mavericks).
I have noticed that I am unable to search for files on Spotlight that are located on my HDD.
I suspect ...
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