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Calendar Search Broken

I am using a macbook pro with OS 11.1 The search function inside of the Calendar app (version 11.0) does not work. No matter what I type (recent or old events — words that I know are on the calendar) the search function returns nothing.


Apple menu  > System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results > Events & Reminders checkbox in ON. All the checkboxes are ON.


Is there a way to reboot the Calendar apps search capability?



Posted on Jan 26, 2021 8:19 PM

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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 8:23 PM

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support might help.

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Jan 27, 2021 1:22 AM in response to Ferd II

I tried putting the base HD folder into Spotlight's Privacy setting and then removing it, as you suggested. For some reason this did not instigate a rebuilding of the Spotlight index.


After that I tried using Terminal as follows, and that worked. The Spotlight index is rebuilding and now the Calendar search function works.


TERMINAL COMMANDS TO REBUILD SPOTLIGHT INDEX

• First, turn off indexing of files:      sudo mdutil -a -i off

• Next, turn indexing back on:        sudo mdutil -a -i on

Calendar Search Broken

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