Q: Spotlight and saved searches do not find files which are there
Since several OSX updates I do not understand how spotlight finds stuff anymore. With Sherlock (yes call me grandpa) I was sure, that everything has been searched for. With Spotlight, I don't have this certainty. A lot of times I had to search manually. Before ranting officially I wanted to ask you guys about your experience.
I had the situation in which the window with the file I was searching for was open in background (after I found it manually and wanted to test SL) but SL still couldn't find anything. This is really annoying and I'm asking myself if I do anything wrong, but there is nothing to do wrong here right? What I experienced is that SL works better with content search than with folder names e.g.
I started using smart folders and experience quite the same now. Why does the SL engine not find these other FCP libraries for example?
This is definitely not making me feel good. I'm only happy when Spotlight finds something, if it doesn't I always start searching manually which of course takes disproportional more time.
Reindexing never helped.
Thanks
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), FCPX 10.2.3
Posted on Apr 28, 2016 2:27 AM
