Spotlight is enabled. I can use Spotlight fine. I cant use tags however.
Well, to be clear, I CAN assign a file or folder a tag. It just has absolutely no use for me since I cant search for it by its tag. Im pretty sure the problem is that all my files are on a server here in the office - not residing on my local Mac. I tested this theory by creating some random folders and files on my desktop and tagging them, and whatdya know - the tags worked for these files.
This leads me to believe that searching tagged items only works if the items are residing on your local machine.
If this is the case then tags are useless to anyone in an office setting. If you are an office of any size at all your files are probably stored on a server. What's worse is that since tags REPLACED labels, now none of my nicely color coded "labeled" jobs are the way they were before. Instead I get a tiny colored dot off to the side. This decreases ease-of-use and functionality.
I hope Im wrong and I just need to flip a switch somewhere to make this work - but if Im right and I cant use tags for all my projects, client lists, etc that I work on that reside on our server (99.9% of my stuff) - Then me (and everyone else who works off a server) just got hosed.