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Oct 18, 2015 3:34 AM in response to profaenby gooober,I Once had an issue with El Capitan running very slow. Especially at boot up! Found an article that said to boot up in safe mode, then shut down and power my Mac back on. Haven't had the slowness since.
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Oct 19, 2015 3:19 AM in response to frankinsanityby Paul Keleher,This may be a little left field, but I had a serious problem with Spotlight and it's now fixed.
I upgraded to El Capitan and found Spotlight was not working properly. In particular I couldn't search my Mail at all and this was pretty desperate as I use it for work.
Despite trying everything to re-index, following the usual steps like trashing my Envelope folders and even using Terminal to re-index I was getting desperate as Spotlight still didn't work.
On a hunch I removed a third party software bundle - MailTags - from my Library [I'd download the supposedly El Capitan version] and immediately Spotlight re-indexed and everything worked fine, including searches in Mail
So it was MailTags that had apparently screwed up Spotlight.
I haven't re-installed Mailtags as even thought I think I could fix Spotlight again - by removing Mailbags - I can't see the point of taking the risk.
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Oct 23, 2015 3:06 PM in response to wallopzby LostAccount,Some OS X features are not available in all regions. Please review http://www.apple.com/osx/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions
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Oct 23, 2015 11:37 PM in response to LostAccountby ikl,True. But the Apple documentation does not mention anything about the simple web searches working only in selected countries. This has been the case already in Yosemite: the spotlight does not search anything outside the mac itself, only results from local documents, mail, etc.are shown.
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Oct 24, 2015 1:42 AM in response to rmjamiesonby amaei,rmjamieson wrote:
I finally ... at long last ... got Spotlight to work. Here is what I did ....
Opened System Preferences. Clicked "Spotlight" to open it. For "Search Results" I clicked all the categories so they will appear in Spotlight search results. At the bottom of the window I clicked "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight and Look Up". I then closed System Preference for Spotlight. I then clicked the Spotlight Icon. At the top Spotlight displayed icons for various apps including Safari. I then entered, into Spotlight, such things as "AAPL" and "Weather Chicago" and "Chicago Cubs". In each case, Spotlight displayed the appropriate result.
So now it's working. HOWEVER, it's still not working for natural speech searches.
Hope my fix works for you.
Jim Minor
It actually works, well for me anyway.
Specific locations don't work eg, "Weather Perth, *specific town* "
But a main state works, eg, "Weather Perth"
Even if it doesn't work, just use 2 fingers from the right to make the notification panel appear, and you can check stocks and weather there.
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Oct 27, 2015 12:34 PM in response to rmjamiesonby MacuzerNJ,I don't know how it worked, Jim, but I followed what you wrote. Everything was already checked off - not one box unchecked - and I closed it and went up to Spotlight and my old friend is back (it seems). Now, let's see what happens after a restart. <aggghhhh>
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Oct 28, 2015 8:04 AM in response to goooberby Ryan Wilcox,Goober,
If you click the lock in the lower right hand corner of the 'Get Info" window it will make the + and - signs black. Click on the + sign and you should be able to add yourself to that list of users. Just make sure that you choose Read & Write. You should then be able to add the HD to the list in Spotlight Privacy.
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Oct 28, 2015 8:49 AM in response to Ryan Wilcoxby gooober,Hello Ryan,
Thanks for the tip! The default setting for a freshly-installed El Capitan is to not give permission to do this. I am keeping them as they are and not varying from the OS default. I was able to get Spotlight working again and it is now working for me.
Best Regards,
Mark
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Oct 29, 2015 6:07 PM in response to frankinsanityby nollam,Just to add to the story, not working for me either.
I tried all the tips I've found online: changing regions, toggling Spotlight settings, re-indexing, rebooting .... but no good. I'm finding that screen splitting doesn't work with mail, rather annoying. I'm amazed and disappointed with this release.
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Nov 14, 2015 8:34 AM in response to frankinsanityby Nikokazaa,Hi all,
i also have a problem with Spotlight: when i search photos in a certain location (g.e. photos NewYork) it doesn't show me anything although i have effectively photos with New York geotag. Instead if i search "New York" into Photos native app it founds them!
Anyone have the same problem?
Greetings,
Niccolò
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Nov 28, 2015 9:29 PM in response to frankinsanityby phonedog_john,Solution: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support
Takes 10 seconds to go through the steps. I haven't read all replies so I don't know if this was covered.
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Dec 5, 2015 11:23 AM in response to goooberby primer idiom,Brilliant! Instant fix! I was getting zero results from spotlight after reboot. Just a prompt field that did nothing when entering data. After applying the two commands it worked right away.
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Dec 17, 2015 10:37 PM in response to frankinsanityby iamkw,Spotlight Suggestions are available in only few countries:
https://www.apple.com/osx/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions
Even i have the same problem as its not available in India.
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Dec 26, 2015 3:09 PM in response to frankinsanityby Tfromparis,Had this problem. Tried to work my head around it all day.
This is the solution I found for my particular case:
if you have multiple accounts -> log into the admin account and check if spotlight is working well with that account. Or try safe mode.
I actually had my daily account (not the admin) restricted with parental control and completely forgot about it. Removed parental control on my account and the new spotlight was working fine then. yay.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:16 AM in response to phonedog_johnby emmaguildford,Perfect! It now works as it should! Weird solution, but easy enough. I copied the whole Macintosh HD drive in and Spotlight now let's me search locally in UK. Many thanks. :)