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Search broken after Sequoia upgrade

Hi. I upgraded today on my MBP M2 from 14.X and now most of the things that I used to be able to find via search are not found. This is crippling to me. Only a tiny fraction are available. Is there a way to reindex in the new OS? I used to run a very large ECM system and once in a blue moon the search would break in such a way that I would have to initiate a reindex in the background. It usually resulted from an upgrade where the new app wouldn't correctly read an index from an older version. Starting the reindex was easy. It was just a variation of rebuilding the man pages in unix, which was also easy. But is there a way to do this on Mac, or otherwise fix this issue? Help would be very much appreciated. I'm thinking of rolling back to 14. Thanks.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 6:14 PM

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SuzanneInMA

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9 points

Posted on Dec 31, 2024 3:56 PM

I posted this earlier but I'm not sure that anyone saw it: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

It worked for me and was very easy.

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oleh139

Level 1

14 points

Nov 28, 2024 7:42 AM in response to Gebsy

Thank you for the reaction.

I don't know why, but it's hanging for 1.5hrs for me with progress nearly 60%. Me on Air M1 16GB/256GB.

oleh139

Level 1

14 points

Nov 28, 2024 10:35 AM in response to Gebsy

Finally it's complete after your provided fix!

Dec 9, 2024 10:58 AM in response to Gebsy

This seemed to have fixed my utterly broken Sequoia Finder search. Thanks.

Dec 10, 2024 10:21 AM in response to Gebsy

Thank you so much! It worked instantly, although I had to wait for 20 minutes for it to rebuild the index but the rest is running fine.

Dec 12, 2024 4:16 AM in response to Gebsy

Hi Gebsy, Worked like magic. Thanks!

Dec 13, 2024 6:34 AM in response to farrelli

Why do I have to be a programmer to use normal functions in this software?

Dec 20, 2024 12:18 PM in response to farrelli

What about Ventura 13.7.2 ? I'm having the same issue with a broken search in folders.

Dec 20, 2024 12:47 PM in response to OldDufferSF

Thank you OldDufferSF. This resolved my issue. :)

Dec 31, 2024 1:31 PM in response to farrelli

I wouldn't be here if that actually worked. Need a real solution. Can't search for ANYTHING.

Dec 31, 2024 1:33 PM in response to Gebsy

Terminal scares me. No idea how I'm supposed to enter that. Do one little misstep, & you blow the computer. Anyone have a video of how they used the Terminal fix?

jonpen69

Level 1

16 points

Jan 25, 2025 4:48 PM in response to Gebsy

Where do you see it rebuilding the DB?

jonpen69

Level 1

16 points

Jan 25, 2025 5:02 PM in response to oleh139

Where did you see the progress?

Did you keep Terminal open?

mbreber

Level 1

4 points

Jan 31, 2025 1:55 AM in response to Gebsy

Thank you Gebsy, I had the same problem and what you shared worked for me. Hope it stays that way it was really annoying!

DudiQ

Level 1

8 points

Feb 2, 2025 12:11 PM in response to chuckefus

Same for me. Worked for several days and now again, cannot find anything. I am also on Sequoia 15.2

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