A Spotlight Search, made within an open Finder window, is not producing any results for a search, specifically pointed to the actual folder.

Hi leroydouglas

Impressed with that last post about searching. I'm actually dumbfounded that the help technicians didn't ask to see that while screen sharing.

UPDATE. Wow, the sub searches are working!!!

So, FWIW, we had tried to drag the user account and any other subfolder with zero success. They didn't suggest dragging the Main Drive. In fact they were insistent that shouldn't have mattered.

Excellent help from you.

Life is good again.

Sincerely appreciative and keep up the great work.

only2cents

Hi Linda

Exactly, but what was interesting is that neither of the two technical support knew enough to drag the main MacIntosh HD into that field.

If you thought I was frustrated with that one, you may find this next one interesting as well.

After completing a Time Machine Migration to the new Mac, when you try to open any applications that are 64 bit, that should work, that had worked on your previous Mac, you can be presented with a pop-up that gives you two options. One, that this is possibly corrupted and do you want to send it to trash? LOL. Or two, ..cancel. That's it...two options. Of course you're thinking why? It worked before the migration, why not now? I can't tell you how frustrated I was as to why it wasn't working? I realize that there are always some applications that we purchased that have licenses etc tied to one machine etc and that's why some people suggest we just install/add these applications afterwards.

But here's the thing that I literally stumbled across and found out they do indeed work without a need to reinstall.

Try to open the problem application. Leave it, with the ridiculous two choice pop-up. Go to Privacy and Settings and scroll towards the bottom. You'll find an option saying something about allowing unknown or third party applications to be opened, very likely referencing what you just tried to open. I selected it to run. It worked. DUH.

So, my beef is, why oh why, wasn't that a note on the pop-up window upon my very first attempt to open the application? Seriously?? I can only ask, what were they thinking? Perhaps just adding a simple, "This may be an application from a third party or unknown developer. Check Privacy and Settings for further information."

I know this was off topic, but surely, I'm not the only one frustrated with that presentation.

Regards only2cents

Hi lerodouglas

Thanks for looking into this. Yes, that is exactly the support document I tried before contacting Apple. I personally dragged my entire user folder over into that box. To be clear, it was sitting in that field. I followed the instructions. I then highlighted the folder that was dragged in and clicked the minus button to remove it. I then clicked close system settings and nothing has changed. I then called APPLE and they had me do the same thing with them online screen sharing but this time we only tried my Picture Folder, thinking a smaller Folder might work doing the exact same steps. Although that assumption seems weak as apparently you could drag your entire MacIntosh drive there as well. The support staff and I agreed to let it work but the next day, nothing had changed. I called the following day and a supervisor had me screen share and do the same thing again. Nothing has been indexed as of yet. I know this is supposed ton take time but this is a fast MacBook and I have not even seen anything remote in Disk Utility using cpu resources to indicate any spotlighting going on in the background. Yesterday we went through the testing of adding a new user, dropping some folders and files into it and doing a Finder search and it works inside the new user as it should. That eliminated a software error as far as we could see. Then I was left with either try to wipe everything and reload my TimeMachine backup used to migrate to this new Mac which I wasn't too happy about trying at this stage and thought maybe someone else had found the same issue. What mystifies me is that this rebuild, according to the document, should be doing that but clearly it isn't. So what's the deal with that? I was thinking about the logic of adding the folder, yet immediately removing it, and personally wondered when adding it why nothing was needing initiating at that first entry. I may sound confused, but I actually thought a click on the done would be needed immediately after the add. Then I thought you'd go back, look at it again, then remove it. If what I'm writing isn't making any sense to you ,I understand. I asked the support about this and asked , why not click done between step 3 and 4, to which there wasn't any known answer other than we try it exactly as written.

Thanks again

only2cents

Hi leroydouglas

I was wondering, if you could specifically suggest, exactly what process/processes I should be looking for, in Disk Utility to see if it's indexing. I am finding it extremely hard to accept that it takes days to reindex, but it may be worth a try.

Thanks

I meant Activity Monitor. And, I've now dragged the big MacIntosh HD in and out of that field so I will let it run and see what happens. Also, why would this actually be any different than what I've already tried? This process is supposed to work on any folder, which has been tried with no results. But we'll see what happens. Thanks