Q: Cannot search Notes "normally" in El Capitan as I could with Yosemite
The search function in Notes is not working for me in El Capitan. I may have made the mistake of selecting upgrade of Notes when iOS9 came out, instead of waiting to set up El Capitan, but on my phone and iPad, I can still search as before and find everything in my iCloud notes.
When I search my iMac (27", late 2012, 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 with 10.11) or MacBook Pro (13", early 2011, 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 with 10.11), I do not get all the results the I should get, meaning if I search for text that I used to help file notes, I only get a very few hits compared to all the notes that I have stored with that tag.
I have used Macs since I bought a IIsi and have a lot of experience, but not much technical knowledge, so I may well have done something dim.
Any help or advice gratefully received.
Thanks
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:44 PM
Hi John (and Randy)
Have just moved all my 626 notes to a new folder, then deleted "All iCloud" notes. That moved them all to "Recently Deleted". I moved them back to the "Notes" folder, and lo and behold, as you correctly say, I can now search, because they seem to be being treated as new notes.
I'm really grateful to you because this makes a difference to my work.
I guess it a line or a few of code that need to be sorted out somewhere.
I hope Apple pick this up.
:-)
Bill
Posted on Oct 8, 2015 11:18 AM