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Yosemite Finder Search Not Working

Anyone else having these problems since updating to Yosemite? I can't seem to find anything via the search box in Finder. Spotlight works fine though.

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 7:26 AM

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Nov 15, 2014 3:23 PM in response to dophile

SOLVED. (Well, a temporary work around)


After calling Apple, walking through a few things, I finally figured out how to get Finder with the highly buggy OS that is known as Yosemite.


Here's how to do it:


-Go to System Preferences, Select Spotlight, then click the Privacy tab.

-choose your Mac HD (so the idea is you want to exclude your entire HD from the Spotlight search)

-Quit System preferences

-Reboot.


Go ahead and open Finder when you've rebooted.

Nov 17, 2014 7:12 AM in response to sinafromtoronto

Unfortunately, this did not work for me.


Excluding the system drive from Spotlight resulted in Finder search not working at all. In fact, I didn't even see any disk activity. It's like the Search field was disabled completely.


Re-adding the system drive brought back the same broken behavior as before. Basic search works fine but any type of filtered search simply sits and spins.

Nov 23, 2014 3:52 AM in response to v1ct0r

I have exactly the same problem, after upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.10 AND updating to 10.10.1

Typing sudo killall mds worked for me.

My mac is a bit old (2009), so I suspect that one or several search functions are running in background, and become unresponsive after a while.


Actually, that's killing the process /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mds_stores that did the trick.

I have not tried killing mdworker alone.

Yosemite Finder Search Not Working

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