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
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.
same here when updated to Ventura 13.2.1 last week
FWIW have reported via Apple feedback.
But that's a bit of a black hole that nothing comes out of.
Not so big on reading comprehension, neh? The part that went "Updating to .3 fixed it."
My spotlight returns result very well. HOWEVER, when I try to move the cursor down it beeps at me and stays right where it is. I see Finder, but I can't move the cursor without a beep
Interesting. macOS 14.2 update *caused* this for me...
... agreed Spotlight is broken,
no longer display file info
no longer drags images
index never finishes
to name just a few issues.
Mac Mini M2 Sonoma 14.2.1.
This is also fixed for me, after updating from Ventura 13.2.X to 13.3! In particular, MS Office files, even if stored in the cloud, now open directly when searched and found via Spotlight, then launched.
So don't re-index Spotlight, etc. -- just try updating your OS.
spotlight finding but not opening files
