Q: Spotlight missing / random / no results (El Capitan)
Ok, so Spotlight has never worked reliably for me since I moved on from Snow Leopard.
Recently though it has rarely worked at all - and it has been like this from day one of El Capitan (after Clean Install).
I've attached a good example - I searched for Kind:Folder and CPD (also tried Title:CPD and Any:CPD)
I know full well where my 'CPD' folder is (see window behind), but Spotlight certainly doesn't!
In fact, it's showing no results at all (there's no spinning wheel, and I have left it some time).
Frequently it shows random results I cannot figure where it has got them, and once I showed the results (I think) from the last search.
This would be find if there was any other search facility still in OS-X, but this is a pretty fundamental deficit in an OS!
I have made some efforts to troubleshoot this before -
Disk First Aid
Adding MacHD to secret folders and then removing
Some md reset console commands but I forget specifics).
Any ideas / anyone king enough to talk me through other ways to get this working?
CONSOLE ERRORS (SELECTED FROM LOADS OF DUPLICATES
I have found a load of errors in terminal... here's a selection (not sure what many of them mean, or why there is there is a sandbox deny error?
15/05/2016 08:03:48.055 sandboxd[164]: ([1351]) SpotlightNetHelp(1351) deny ipc-posix-shm-read-data CFPBS:186D7:
15/05/2016 08:03:48.069 sandboxd[164]: ([1351]) SpotlightNetHelp(1351) deny file-read-data /Users/martyn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist
15/05/2016 08:03:48.077 sandboxd[164]: ([1351]) SpotlightNetHelp(1351) deny ipc-posix-shm-read-data CFPBS:186D7:
15/05/2016 08:03:48.082 sandboxd[164]: ([1351]) SpotlightNetHelp(1351) deny file-read-data /Users/martyn/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.9631D9B7-A6D5-5851- 90BE-88F3ED190F90.plist
15/05/2016 08:04:02.633 SpotlightNetHelper[1351]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 128 __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 22 (SECOND MOST COMMON ERROR I FOUND)
15/05/2016 08:19:15.777 SpotlightNetHelper[1351]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 144 __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32
15/05/2016 08:06:03.125 Spotlight[1344]: XPC connection was invalidated (MOST COMMON ERROR I FOUND)
15/05/2016 08:19:15.776 SpotlightNetHelper[1351]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 144 closing socket due to TLS CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
15/05/2016 08:33:34.587 sandboxd[164]: ([1362]) storeaccountd(1362) deny file-write-create /Users/martyn/Library/Caches/com.apple.Spotlight/ProductionBag
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Filevault Encryption
Posted on May 15, 2016 12:45 AM
