Q: El Cap Finder Search Bug?

Esquared wrote:

So the cause must be at your end somewhere. I don't have a Fusion drive, so that may be it. But it might be something else.

Have you tried replicating this in another (freshly made) user account and/or in Safe Mode?

I'm not sure what I could be doing on my end to cause this... the EXACT same folder with the EXACT same search criteria works on Yosemite but not El Capitan.

I tried creating a new user account... same problems. I also tried adding the search criteria.

If the original search (in the top right search bar) is 143, I can add criteria and Name > Contains > 1436 and Name > Matches > 1436 will return the expected results. If however the original search is 1436, no combination in search criteria will return the 1436.png... ***

Again, when copying the same folder and running the same search on Yosemite, it just works the way you would expect... you just do a normal search without any extra search criteria and a search for 1436 returns the file 1436.png. I don't understand why it doesn't work the same way on El Capitan, but with such a large collection of design assets, it's making it very difficult to work.

- Could this perhaps just be a corrupted Spotlight file?

- Is the Spotlight search and Finder search handled differently?

- Is there a way to totally reset either of these?

It seems like if a new user account has the same problems, it's just a bug within El Capitan itself, but I'm just hoping someone with more knowledge than me has a solution.

Wel, as I stated in the first post, I've already done that to the HD, and it didn't solve the issue. Is there some Terminal command that will delete the Spotlight index file? I amy not be using the correct terminology here, but I'm assuming there is a file somewhere on the drive that stores the all the info Spotlight uses for it's searches, the index itself.

I have no proof, but I'm thinking either

a) Fusion drive itself is the culprit, since I technically have 2 HD's on the machine that the OS sees as one and it moves files I access frequently onto the SSD (I thing thats an oversimplification, but it's the way I understand it) or

     - You (Esquared), without a fusion drive, are not having the issue

b) just some bad code somewhere in El Capitan

     - El Capitan is producing other issues (like the Adobe Illustrator CS5 crash-on-Save fiasco) https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1969084?start=0&tstart=0

This is really aggravating. I spent a lot of money for a new iMac, and the software I use to make a living can not save without crashing, and with years worth of design assets,

balsa2 wrote:

 

Try : "name:1436" , in the top right search bar. Without the quotation marks.

Yes, that worked, and thanks, BUT, the point remains... I didn't have to do this in Yosemite, and the guy with ElCap and no Fusion drive is NOT having this issue... So, is this a bug with the Fusion drive, or do you think some index file is corrupted? There is no way this is the intended behavior... to make it harder to search for files, where typing in an exact file name returns no results, but only if you have a fusion drive and are running El Capitan...

chroot wrote:

 

Red Fall wrote:

 

Wel, as I stated in the first post, I've already done that to the HD, and it didn't solve the issue. Is there some Terminal command that will delete the Spotlight index file? I amy not be using the correct terminology here, but I'm assuming there is a file somewhere on the drive that stores the all the info Spotlight uses for it's searches, the index itself.

 

 

It's stored in the /.Spotlight-V100 folder but the files for the indexing information is deleted when you add it to the Privacy tab in Spotlight.  Manually deleting this will have the same effect is adding disk to Spotlight -> Privacy.

Ok, thanks for the info. Still, I already did it through System Preferences and it did not solve the problem