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I recently updated my macbook air from macos sierra(skipped high sierra) to macos mojave everything was fine but now i couldn't search in my pdfs in preview app it is always showing no results used to work fine on sierra just a day before
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), macOS Mojave (10.14), null
BTW, in order to get search working again, you have to close the window (command + w) and reopen on the pdf. Closing Preview all together (command + q) and reopening the pdf doesn't work. This is indeed bizarre.
I have the same issue. CMD + W only works sometimes. Spoke to Apple Support today. Two different people told me they were unaware of the issue and gave no ETA on a fix.
Interesting. The workaround works 100% of the time for me with PDFs that can't be searched the first time. I haven't checked every single one of course. But I have checked a couple dozen.
Very unusual.
⌘W works for me as well. ⌘Q Does not.
beowulflee- thanks!
I recently upgraded to Mojave and just discovered this same issue... thought the PDF had somehow become corrupted. Closing the PDF and reopening fixed it. Oh, Apple... 😝
Just replying here to say that I had the same problem and it was driving me crazy. Command-W and reopening the file fixed it for me.
I'm in high sierra. It appears that pdf's downloaded since high sierra are not searchable, even after open/close/open. Please repeat any work arounds that I may have missed.
Correction. Sort by table of contents DOES solve the problem! Thanks!
I have this issue too with Mojave. Sometimes when I open a PDF, search function does not work at all. I close the PDF then re-open it, then suddenly search will work. Ridiculous and annoying.
If I close and reopen one file in Preview, then other open files also become searchable!
(2015 iMac, Mojave 14.1)
this is bullshit. fix it apple!
Hundreds of people report they also have this issue..
Apple - Any chance we'll see this fixed, ever?
search in preview not working in macos mojave
