search not working in calendar
Currently using Macbook Air 2013 and built in search for Calendar returns zero results everytime. What steps can I try?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Currently using Macbook Air 2013 and built in search for Calendar returns zero results everytime. What steps can I try?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender mdworker -o -k Sender mds | grep -v boxd | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Linc, here is the output
Sep 28 13:15:22 CDA-MLI-26 mds[58] <Error>: (Error) Server: Disabled store registered for scope "/Users/ebxxxxxx"
Sep 28 13:39:36 CDA-MLI-26 mds[58] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 13:57:04 CDA-MLI-26 mds[68] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 13:59:44 CDA-MLI-26 mds[50] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 14:21:52 CDA-MLI-26 mds[68] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 21:28:08 CDA-MLI-26 mds[60] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 21:35:36 CDA-MLI-26 mds[57] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Sep 28 22:33:47 CDA-MLI-26 mds[57] <Error>: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputerIndexed"
--- last message repeated 3 times ---
Sep 29 08:51:07 CDA-MLI-26 mds[58] <Error>: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
Rebuild the Spotlight index. If you try to search now from the magnifying-glass icon in the top right corner of the display, a pulsing dot will appear in the icon. When the dot disappears, the indexing is complete.
Tried that and some more. No luck. No search results in OS caledar. Same happens with Outlook for Mac 2011.
Can you find anything in Spotlight?
Yes. Files etc appear. All but calendar events.
Quit Calendar. Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache
Move the selected file to the Trash. There may be one or two other files in the same folder with names that begin in "Calendar Cache". If so, delete those files too.
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
I also have tried all of the above suggestions and still Calendar 8.0 search will not work. This is what my terminal output reads when following your previous instructions:
Oct 13 21:54:49 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mdworker[1119] <Error>: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
Oct 13 21:54:49 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mdworker[1116] <Error>: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
Oct 13 21:54:49 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mdworker[1156] <Error>: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
Oct 13 21:54:49 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mdworker[1158] <Error>: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
Oct 14 14:05:56 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (ImportServer.Normal:1808) UseBulkImporter 0 ForceBulkImporter 0
Oct 14 14:05:56 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (FMW.Normal:1428) FMW 0 0
Oct 14 14:05:56 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7ff6ba034000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Recovery HD
Oct 14 14:05:56 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (Server.Warning:445) No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
Oct 14 14:07:15 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7ff6ba87e000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Data
Oct 14 14:10:01 xxxxxxxxxx-iMac mds[61] <Error>: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7ff6ba971000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.TeUtNg
Any advice would be truly appreciated!
I ended up resolving the problem. In an attempt to speed up my mac I deleted the contents of my "Preferences" folder earlier (after which the search stopped working). I thought to go back in Time Machine and restore that original folder and since restoring, the Calendar search feature is working properly again. Thanks anyway!
search not working in calendar