spotlight finding but not opening files

The spotlight finder finds files I'm looking for on my 2022 Macbook Air with Ventura OS, but I can't get any of them to open from Spotlight. I've tried clicking on the files once, twice, but nothing happens. Ideas please?

MacBook Air

Posted on Dec 30, 2022 6:36 PM

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Posted on Dec 31, 2022 1:24 PM

Try it by entering into safe mode. If it works properly there, then one of your 3rd party programs or utilities that run in the background, may be interfering with Spotlight. Then it would be a matter of trial and error until you find which program your running would be causing the problem. If you find that it works fine in safe mode, do a normal login (not safe mode) and go into System Settings | General | Login Items, and disable all of them. Try using Spotlight. If it works properly, then enable each item in the Login Items, one by one, testing Spotlight each time until you find which one is interfering.

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