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Nov 3, 2015 7:11 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby 24DM,★HelpfulSame problem here so you're not alone. I've never opened so many obscure files.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
10.11.1 (15B42)
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Nov 26, 2015 1:01 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby Stijn Spijker,★HelpfulSame problem here, so you're not with the two of you either.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
10.11 (15A284)
Got this problem when upgrading to El Capitan. Most common error? Searching "hrome" instead of "chrome", opens up an obscure Excel file every time. Horrible for me, considering Alfred as a replacement for Spotlight.
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Nov 8, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby Eric Root,Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
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Nov 26, 2015 12:31 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby actin4life,Having the same issue. Filed a bug report.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
OS X 10.11.1 (15B42)
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Nov 26, 2015 12:53 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby Barney-15E,There appears to be a handful of people with this problem, but many others do not.
Do you have any third-party text substitution software installed?
Or, any other text-related system mods?
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Nov 26, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Barney-15Eby Stijn Spijker,BetterTouch is the only thing I could think of...
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Nov 26, 2015 1:00 PM in response to Barney-15Eby Edmond Hirota,Nope. No text expanders. I have the same problem on both my work and personal Mac accounts. They have different software and settings.
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Dec 13, 2015 8:02 AM in response to Edmond Hirotaby Adriaan.,Has anyone found how to deal with this?
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Jan 11, 2016 2:04 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby Victor Mattos,I'm facing this issue since upgrading to El Capitan. Apple support contact attendants acted as the issue was very unusual and recommended to reinstall the El Capitan, but it also did not solve the problem.
Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
Processor 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X El Capitan 10.11.2
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Jan 11, 2016 4:18 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby johncook22,First, I want to note that this problem is being discussed elsewhere, though none of them provide a solution:
https://openradar.appspot.com/23222411
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7296308
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7318604
https://www.reddit.com/r/OSXElCapitan/comments/3wczrk/spotlight_eating_the_first _letter/
I too have this problem. I've spoken with three senior advisors with Apple Technical Support, none of them had a solution. I have this problem on both of my computers (both 15" MacBook Pro Retina). The problem arises most commonly when I spotlight search for "Things" (which is a todo list program); the subsequent spotlight search then loses the first letter that is typed. It seems like the problem arises after Spotlight does a certain kind of search.
I did a complete erase and reinstall of OSX. At first the problem was gone, but as I reinstalled software the problem came back. One time I observed that it came back as soon as I reinstalled "Things". However, another time I did an erase and reinstall of OSX and some programs (but not Things), and the problem recurred.
Given how relatively uncommon this problem seems to be, but some of us have had it on multiple computers, suggests to me that it is some software or setting that we have that has contaminated both computers. If I had the time I would repeatedly do erase and reinstalls to try to isolate what programs make the problem come back.
Any other ideas? Apple?
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Feb 5, 2016 9:36 AM in response to johncook22by TaylorBo,Hey guys,
I had the same problem. I always launch Spotlight using the CMD + SPACE keyboard shortcut. The problem would occur almost every time I launched Spotlight using the keyboard shortcut and then immediately typed, for example, the name of an app. I was able to get Spotlight to stop eating the first letter by disabling this setting…
1. System Preferences
2. Spotlight
3. UNCHECK Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight and Look up
Hope this helps until Apple fixes it.
-Taylor
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Feb 14, 2016 9:29 AM in response to TaylorBoby ericiidx,Thanks! I was having the issue discussed in this thread, and so far, this has worked as a band-aid fix.
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Feb 27, 2016 4:04 PM in response to Edmond Hirotaby jlust,Same issue here, I'm a long time user of cmd+space to open just about anything on my Mac. El Capitan introduced this issue. The first input character types in, but then gets backspaced almost immediately by some sort of textfield refresh. The additional strange effect I've noticed is spotlight will work properly on subsequent uses in a short span of time, but say after 15mins it will again ignore the first character input when cmd+space is used again.
Thanks to Actin4life for making a bug report, I would as well, but I've learned in the past Apple will ignore duplicates.
Over all I love the Mac OS, but Apple not having a team of developers not working on these small quick fixes I feel is a very poor practice. Instead they are likely to fix this issue in next falls release of what I would only guess to be El Portal. In the mean time ignoring it as a non-breaking interface bug in El Capitan, and then introducing some other new bug in El Portal that only effects less than 20% of users that use it.
I'm going to try TaylorBo's suggestion: UNCHECK Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Spotlight and Look up