Before upgrade from mojave was really fast (less 2 seconds). Now it takes more than 5 seconds of files I use to use and open from spotlight. For me is totally broken. I have already rebuild the index. Any clue or patch? It is frustrating and slowing my workflow a lot. I'm thinking in going back to mojave
MacBook Pro Retina
I don't have that experience.
What your system drive? Is it an SSD? An HD?
If it is an SSD, Spotlight should be almost instantaneous.
Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.
Also, consider reviewing some old plugins and preference panes that are not doing anything useful - you have an old pref pane for FUSE (2011), and Silverlight (which is no longer supported in any current browser).
You probably don't need the pdf plugins.
Oh... and since performance is a concern, you may want to consider ditching Chrome. It is a resource hog and it is especially detrimental if you use any video applications, since it hogs the videotoolbox and prevents apps like iMovie and FCP from using it properly.
Hi Luis,
It's a Macbook pro 13" 2017 with 128Gb ssd. Spotlight was almos instantaneous in all versions before catalina. After update, it si really slow.
Thanks in advance. You can find the report below:
Hi, the software installed is the same as it was in previous versions of macOS and the free space is more or less the same. I always try to have free space in HD of at least the double of ram (16Gb). Anyway, Catalina did something to spotlight because just before upgrade worked fine and just after upgrade was slow.
I'll uninstall avg. I don't use chrome as regular browser, but I don't think this is the problem because before it wasn't.
Thanks!
Jose
Hi, I've uninstalled avg and Reindexed spotligh but every thing seems the same, it takes at least 4-5 seconds to show a result when looking for a file in downloads or documents folders :( I'm thinking in downgrading to Mojave
Thanks Luis for your advice.
Jose
jollomar wrote:
Before upgrade from mojave was really fast (less 2 seconds). Now it takes more than 5 seconds of files I use to use and open from spotlight. For me is totally broken. I have already rebuild the index. Any clue or patch? It is frustrating and slowing my workflow a lot. I'm thinking in going back to mojave
See if you qualify:
https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-solid-state-drive-service
Two things stand out very quickly from the report:
1) Uninstall AVG. Third party antivirus offer zero protection, and conflict with the built-in system security. I would not be surprised if this alone were responsible for the slowness you described.
2) Try to make some more space on the drive. I know it is hard with such a small drive, but performance of any drive will degrade when your free space is too low; plus the OS is constantly using some of that space for caches, vm, and stuff.
Why is spotlight so slow in Catalina?
