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Spotlight is not picking words and phrases on my computer. I have tried this with a number of words that only appear a few times in my files. I open Spotlight and start typing the work one letter at a time. Spotlight starts displaying the results and as I keep typing the list gets shorter until at the end no files are left.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
wllmst wrote:
Spotlight is not picking words and phrases on my computer. I have tried this with a number of words that only appear a few times in my files. I open Spotlight and start typing the work one letter at a time. Spotlight starts displaying the results and as I keep typing the list gets shorter until at the end no files are left.
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
wllmst wrote:
Spotlight is not picking words and phrases on my computer. I have tried this with a number of words that only appear a few times in my files. I open Spotlight and start typing the work one letter at a time. Spotlight starts displaying the results and as I keep typing the list gets shorter until at the end no files are left.
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
Are you enclosing multiple words in double quotes to avoid Spotlight treating them separately? Are you narrowing your search to specific document types:
kind:pdf "See spot run"
kind:word "Reprise success"
kind:pages annoying
kind:pdf name:mythings grocer
Rebuilding the index fixed the problem. Thanks!
spotlight not working