Mac OS Ventura Search

its just broken. DOA


I have an external drive that I use as a system back up. Files on my main hard drive are copied to my back up drive every night. I can navigate to a particular folder on my system drive, and the same folder on my backup drive, and see the identical file in exactly the same place on both drives.


But Spotlight will only see the file on the backup drive, not my system drive.


Spotlight and Search are FUBAR!

Posted on Aug 23, 2023 9:38 PM

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Aug 24, 2023 3:40 AM in response to Jeffrey Lee

Jeffrey Lee wrote:

its just broken. DOA

I have an external drive that I use as a system back up. Files on my main hard drive are copied to my back up drive every night. I can navigate to a particular folder on my system drive, and the same folder on my backup drive, and see the identical file in exactly the same place on both drives.

But Spotlight will only see the file on the backup drive, not my system drive.

Spotlight and Search are FUBAR!


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