Finder search 'FilesThisWeek' not workingI have a Finder search query labelled FilesThisWeek which returns zero result (no files). It searches for 2 criteria: 'Items matching text' is set to * 'Last opened date' is 'within last' x 'days' That second crite...view more
Thread Finder Tags and Colors Changed (Deleted) by El Capitan
Finder Tags and Colors Changed (Deleted) by El CapitanI have upgraded three MacBook Airs and Pros to El Capitan from Yosemite this week and have just realized a critical problem on all of them. The upgrade has caused all custom Finder Tags to revert to generic color-base...view more
Thread Spotlight- Privacy list error item (El Capitan)
Spotlight- Privacy list error item (El Capitan)Spotlight does not work anymore on my external drive. I tried to add it to the Privacy list of Spotlight to rebuilt the index like mentioned here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716 without going into termina...view more
Thread Spotlight - disable Internet search does not work
Spotlight - disable Internet search does not workI cannot disable Internet search in Spotlight. I've followed the instructions in OS X El Capitan: About Spotlight Suggestions and Spotlight still searches the Internet even after a cold reboot. In System P...view more
Spotify doesn't show up in SpotlightI am running Mac os x 10.11.1 The bug was there already at Mac os x Yosemite I have Spotify installed on my mac. But when I search for 'Spotify' in Spotlight, only system files will show up, not the Spotify a...view more
AFP search in OS X FinderDear Apple Support Team, We have a file search / indexing problem with our NAS. Mac OS X Finder cannot find some of our files, which are on the AFP shared NAS. However, it will found them when we click on "Thi...view more
Thread How can I remove Library from Spotlight searches?
How can I remove Library from Spotlight searches?In my spotlight searches, either through Command-space or in the search bar in a Finder window, my results are dominated by files in my Library folder (and Outlook in particular), which I thought was supposed to be hi...view more
Spotlight stuck indexingMy MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015, bought in September 2015), started to drain battery and overheat (CPU temp at 80°C but fun at 1300 RPM) in last few days. It also became slow, simple things as putting YouTube ...view more
Thread 'print from finder' shortcut skips some files
'print from finder' shortcut skips some filesI have a late 2008 aluminium unibody running El Capitan 10.11.5 with 8 gigs of ram and a 2.4 Ghz intel core dup processor. When I use the print from directory shortcut (command+p) in finder to print a large bu...view more
Thread Prevent spotlight from searching these locations not working
Prevent spotlight from searching these locations not workingHello, When I add a folder to the Privacy > 'Prevent spotlight from searching these locations' section in the Spotlight settings dialog, I still see results of file in said folder appearing in spotlight and...view more
Thread Slow after boot, problems with spotlight, mdworker?
Slow after boot, problems with spotlight, mdworker?Hi I have a iMac 27" with 3.4GHz Core i5 and 24GB of ram. On boot the system is really slow and unresponsive. Launching a simple text editor or Chrome can take a long time. Also the Spotlight is really...view more
spotlight doesn't workhello, i would like to ask how can i fix my spotlight, When i am searching for an app or a file via spotlight some times i got no result back for example i was searching for iTunes via spotlight and i got not...view more
partitions have disappearedI was trying to solve a problem with the “Other” partition and I accidentally erased the movies,audio,etc. partitions. Now all my storage shows up in Other. How do I correct this problem?view more
Thread How to scroll preview window by keyboard in Spotlight?
How to scroll preview window by keyboard in Spotlight?For an instance, Look up word "this" in Spotlight, navigate to result of Dictionary app. Preview window lists a long result. I'd like to scroll down the result just by keyboard key. The problem is I couldn't find a sh...view more
Spotlight not searching in pdf contentHello everyone, I have a lot of pdf files with typical useless names coming from taxes, banks, ... I need to search some specific words in their content in order to classify and rename them. However, what ever...view more
Spotlight crashes on wakeI don't know about you but when an application crashes, even if it is an application I don't use much, it drives me mad. In the last month, every couple of days or so Spotlight crashes on wake, here's the first few li...view more
Process: Spotlight [452] crashing (crash report)Process: Spotlight [452] is crashing... here is the crash report - wasn't sure which part to post. Any help is appreciated as I think this is an indexing issue! Process: &nbs...view more
