High Sierra: searching the finder returns “0 items”?

[Incidentally, since the title for the Sierra and High Sierra forums is “macOS,” a search for “OS X High Sierra” -- following the naming convention of every previous OS version -- returns no results. Apple might at least consider a search alias to redirect searches of “OS X High Sierra” to the correct forum instead of just giving a null result.]


Just upgraded my MBP mid-2012 to High Sierra, and now the Finder’s search appears to be broken. I can literally copy and paste a document’s name into the search bar and get “0 items” as a result -- regardless of whether I choose “Name matches” or not, or whether I search “This Mac” or the current folder.


More frustrating, if I’m looking for something that shares a name with something that the System created (such as an iTunes folder), that DOES come up. So if I have a document called “ABC 123” and I search “ABC”, my results will include the iTunes folder for the band ABC but NOT the document.


Can anyone duplicate this behavior, or is it just me? TIA.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Feb 5, 2018 5:24 PM

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Feb 8, 2018 7:24 PM in response to CountryGirl56

Yeah, I get nothing. I followed the instructions to re-index the whole drive, and when that didn’t do anything I decided to attempt re-indexing just the desktop (figured that would be fast enough that I couldn’t interrupt it if I tried).


No joy, as you can see: (1) shows the file name on the desktop, (2) shows searching the whole machine by name, and (3) shows searching just the desktop.

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