Finder search problem with partial names - macOS 15.7
A couple of years ago, the Finder search was broken and required about three terminal commands to fix. (Although in my experience, the problem kept reoccurring.) That seems to have mostly been resolved but I stumbled on a problem last night involving partial file names. I could not remember the entire name of a folder, only part of it - the search did not find the folder.
[Example: filename was BobChuckMary - I remembered Mary but not BobChuck.]
I eventually found the folder manually - for a grin, I tried the search again with another folder in that subdirectory, again only using part of the name. This time it worked. But it still could not find the folder I was originally looking for despite being right in front of me in that same subdirectory. Clearly, the finder search can only find files using partial names irregularly.
I rebooted and nothing changed. I have not tried that previous terminal fix to get Spotlight to re-index. I might try that later, but something tells me that this won't fix it generally. It's a strange indexing error.
Anyone else see this? Maybe macOS 26 fixes but I have not taken the plunge yet.
iMac 24″, macOS 15.7
