All My Files are missing in Finder

Then all I can suggest is what I have already stated about reindexing spotlight.

I added my drive and waited a minute as you suggested. I went back in to remove it and it won't let me remove it. It give me Privacy List Error. The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error.

jlneece1 wrote:

I added my drive and waited a minute as you suggested. I went back in to remove it and it won't let me remove it. It give me Privacy List Error. The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error.

Try this command in Terminal. Copy and paste it into your Terminal window.

sudo mdutil -i on /

It will ask for your password. Type the password and hit return. You won't see anything on the screen when you type it.

It should respond with "Indexing enabled."

Geez why does my Mac have to be the exception to everything? I got this response after entering password:Error: Index is already changing state. Please try again in a moment.

jlneece1 wrote:

Geez why does my Mac have to be the exception to everything? I got this response after entering password:Error: Index is already changing state. Please try again in a moment.

Restart

This seemed to solve the problem. All my files appear to show up in both places now. Spotlight allowed me to remove the drive from the privacy setting. I appreciate all your help.

Thankyou!

This also helped me! my whole finder contents disappeared and all i could see were empty tags! Followed your instructions, added all my files to spotlight, and wa la! all there! THANK YOU!

Does anyone know why this happens in the first place?

(1) Open Finder

(2) Click on Finder Menu in the menu top bar (CMD,)

(3) Select Preferences

(4) Check the box next to All My Files (or Recent as it is called in High Sierra).

That is it.

All My Files is now "Recents"????????

How did this happen & why?????