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Latest Ventura 13.4. Finder will not find files in a folder search


MacBook Air 15″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 7, 2023 2:28 PM

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Jul 8, 2023 1:29 AM in response to Barney-15E

FWIW: I had this problem in two of my macs, and was able to solve it, but there were differences, which may be due to one being Intel and the other Apple Silicon.


on my 2019 MBP, I did not need to use recovery.



on my M1 Mac Studio, I had to use recovery.


Note that the commands are subtly different in each case, and they need to be typed exactly. A mistype when using such a command as “rm -r” can be catastrophic, so don’t hurry and make sure that you understand what is happening.

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