MacOS Mojave Spotlight Lag

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MacOS Mojave Spotlight Lag

Recently, I have updated my MacBook Air from High Sierra to Mojave. My MacBook is of Early 2015 with a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, a 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, and 256 GB storage, of which I still have 150 GB remaining. Before I updated to Mojave, spotlight was working perfectly fine and it was very fast. After the update, it takes roughly 15 seconds for the spotlight to show any search results and sometimes does not even show results. I have got my spotlight to reindex Macintosh HD and I have also run First-Aid in Disk Utility. Does someone know how I could fix this problem? I would very appreciate a workable solution🙂

MacBook Air, macOS Mojave (10.14), Early 2015, 1.6 GHz i5, 4GB Memory

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 4:56 AM

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dialabrain

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Oct 12, 2018 12:31 PM in response to Forever 26

FWIW, I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mojave and I have no Spotlight lag. One possibility is having software installed that is not compatible with Mojave.

Please install EtreCheck and post the report.

http://etrecheck.com/

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Forever 26 Author

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Oct 12, 2018 6:15 PM in response to dialabrain

Hello dialabrain,

I have installed EtreCheck and ran it for "computer is too slow". However, when I copy the report and try to paste it to this reply, the forum gives me "invalid characters" and won't allow me to post this report. How should I go around this problem so that the report would still be accurate and can be posted?

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dialabrain

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Oct 13, 2018 2:36 AM in response to Forever 26

Some things to note, you should uninstall CleanMyMac. Macs don't need cleaning, maintenance, programs and CMM is considered to be junk and has been known to damage the system. Malwarebytes is fine but I would disable real time protection and only manually scan if you suspect adware/malware. You have a couple apps I don't know.

One reason your Mac may be slow is because you are running too many apps at once with only 4GB RAM. That's considered minimal for Mojave.

One other reason Safari may be slow if because you are running a VPN. They always slow web performance.

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Forever 26 Author

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Oct 13, 2018 6:40 PM in response to dialabrain

I remember trying to take out CleanMyMac on my computer but apparently it hasn't been removed properly. I probably have some of its files still on my computer but not the app itself. How can I go into the system to remove it completely? Also what are some other apps I need to be careful about?

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Forever 26 Author

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Oct 14, 2018 5:44 PM in response to dialabrain

I have booted my mac with safe mode and spotlight is still the same as usual. It still takes around 15 seconds to load results.

I don't know about the difference in speed of the Safari because I usually use Google Chrome as my default browser rather than Safari.

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dialabrain

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Oct 13, 2018 7:13 PM in response to Forever 26

Before we go through that, can you boot into Safe Mode and see if Spotlight is still slow and Sfari loads pages slowly?

Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support

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ivook

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Oct 12, 2018 11:58 AM in response to Forever 26

Same here. Safari render all webpages slow too. System in general is laggy... Battery drains very quick.MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7)

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dialabrain

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Oct 12, 2018 8:29 PM in response to Forever 26

Sorry to hear that. There have have been a couple of users who couldn't post here. You could post your report on Pastebin.com or if you use Dropbox you can post a link from your Dropbox.

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