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Oct 3, 2015 2:27 AM in response to frankinsanityby sp0993,Macbook user from India: same complaint.
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Oct 3, 2015 2:54 AM in response to dadroby Gerrya,Mine was the same this morning I went to system prefrences , spotlight, privcay tab, then added my HD confirmed ok left for two minutes then removed. Forcing a reindex. Unfortunately El Capitan does not show it,s actually reindexing. After about 5 minutes I typed in weather London and Spotlight sprung to life also you can see the reindexing bar below the search
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Oct 3, 2015 2:56 AM in response to frankinsanityby straubns,Same problem. Nothing populating the search tool. No indication that it's even trying except to find items on my machine. No weather, stock info, sports, news...nothing. Is there a setting or on/off toggle? Looked and can't find it. Even tried the Spotlight Search to find it! Ironically ineffective.
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Oct 3, 2015 6:59 AM in response to frankinsanityby Neon Ma,Same problem in Hong kong. I wonder who can actually get this working
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Oct 3, 2015 7:06 AM in response to An_Fongby epicentre_uk,Apparently there are some restrictions to where the enhancements are supposed to work, in terms of both search language and location:
https://www.apple.com/osx/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions
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Oct 3, 2015 7:53 AM in response to frankinsanityby intellix,Got a retina MBP 15" from the UK with all the UK settings. Using it in Malta and not seeing any of the new El Capitan stuff. Tried using Tunnelbear to proxy my location to UK/US but no luck, maybe the location check happens on startup or so.
I'm guessing someone just needs to create an app that spoofs your location for Spotlight.
It's quite annoying really. If I can speak/write English but am outside of the US, why should I not have access to all this magic? I can understand natural language not working for other languages but based on location...
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Oct 5, 2015 2:35 PM in response to Gerryaby mustardnut,Thanks for the tip. Once it started reindexing some of the features (weather specifically) began to work. We'll see how it does when indexing is done
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Oct 5, 2015 2:37 PM in response to frankinsanityby jodyr,Confirming that Spotlight is useless for me under 10.11
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Oct 7, 2015 2:33 PM in response to Gerryaby gooober,When I go into System Preferences, Spotlight, Privacy Tab, and try to add my "Macintosh HD", I get an error message stating that "The item couldn't be added or removed because you don't have the appropriate permissions." I do have admin privileges, but apparently only 'system' has write privileges.
And therefore, my iMac will not re-index.
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Oct 10, 2015 4:44 PM in response to frankinsanityby Adan Chou,I checked the Bing Search in System Perference>Spotlight but nothing have changed, would it be able to change the default search provider such as Google or Duckduckgo? Because actually if this thing works, I think the Bing can't go as well as Google.
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Oct 15, 2015 7:01 AM in response to Adan Chouby gooober,I found in my case, that the indexing service was not enabled. Once I enabled it, spotlight now works!
$ sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
$ sudo mdutil -a -i on
If you do not wish to enable indexing on all drives (with the above command), see the man page for the mdutil command.
**Also of note**
When I restart my iMac, spotlight briefly indexes for a minute or so before it starts "working again".
I created a clean install of El Capitan on a fresh VM and it behaves in the same manner. Only the VM is finished indexing in less than a minute. I am guessing that is because I only have the OS installed and no other programs.
Hope this helps!
Mark
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Oct 15, 2015 2:56 PM in response to frankinsanityby ricdick,Same problem in Puerto Rico, i reindex several times but still have the issue
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Oct 15, 2015 3:39 PM in response to ricdickby gooober,Your spotlight is not working at all? I had to give my Mac a little while to finish indexing the first time. Also, whenever I restart, it re-indexes for a few minutes, but works fine after that.
I Created a virtual machine with a clean install of El Capitan and it behaves in the same way. Only takes less than a minute to re-index as I only have the OS installed.
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Oct 18, 2015 2:03 AM in response to devaoPoloby profaen,I feel the same. El Capitan has been El Crap on my MBP. Slow and dysfunctional.

