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I need some help with a 2018 MacBook Air. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8 GB RAM on Sonoma 14.4.1. A few weeks ago Spotlight & Smart Folders tied to an External Drive started having issues. I noticed that recent files added to folders in the hard drive weren’t appearing in Smart Folders as they...

mac mini 2018 running 13.4.1 using a magic keyboard 2 with number pad and a magic trackpad 2. I recently installed an app called Barrier to be able to use my mac keyboard and trackpad to control my PC. Since then I have been using spotlight to pull it up quickly but the stupid Touch Bar option...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this kind of question in. If it is better suited elsewhere, feel free to move it. Hello, everyone! I have a question wrt Spotlight's settings. I actually triple boot 3 different versions of Mac OS on a 2010 unibody macbook: Snow Leopard, El Capitan, and...

Just started to use my iPhone (15+) to scan documents (using the Scan Documents option in Files), save to iCloud and then open on my MacMini. It seemed to work really well. However, I have found that .pdf contents are not searchable by Spotlight when I do this. If I open Preview and then scan...

is this possible with raycast or Alfred or even spotlight? I love the spotlight & im sick of opening safari, call me lazy sure but I wanna know if its possible to type in what I want to look for in spotlight then press enter or whatever button is programmed & then take me to a list of searches...

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I hate web search in Spotlight. I hate the concept, I don't want to see it, I have never and will never use it so it just gets in the way. If I want to search on the web, I'll open a browser and search there. See image 1, where an intrusive suggestion to search on the web is the first...

If I’m searching for a place in Spotlight, it will show Apple Maps search results. Is there a way to hide these results? I don’t have the app installed but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

I have been seeing videos of users toggling settings from Spotlight. Typing “Settings,” for example, brings up a list of settings that can be toggled. Likewise, typing specific settings like “Bluetooth“ should also work, but I just get a link that opens the setting from the Settings app, there...

I have tried everything from new/changing web browsers to restoring default keyboard shortcuts. I feel like its malware but when I scan the scans come back clean. I feel like it is also a simple fix in my settings that I somehow changed by accident. it is driving me crazy. here are pictures of...

Recently searched for a file known to be in ~/Library/Preferences/ (while in OS 10.15), and got no results. Same in 10.11. (But worked in 10.6.) Files within other "system" folders can be located, and results were always set to "include System Files" and "Visible OR Invisible" and standard...

Hi all, Anyone experienced spotlight indexing (just fine) but after a short period of time, seemingly rolling back the index and say 250 folders where pulling in a search, its now only pulling 2 folders? Setup: M2 MacMini 512GB HD with 16GB ram with Samsung 870 QVO 4 TB SATA (also tried with...

Hi, since a few days my M1 MBP shows several symptoms of performance reduction. In general the UI is laggy, the mouse cursor shows intermittent stops, scrolling in Safari stops for about half a second and continues afterwards. Furthermore the Spotlight search prompt disappears after 1-2...

I rebuilt my Spotlight index the other day, and after it was rebuilt, I noticed Safari.app is no longer appearing when searching "Safari" in Spotlight. The app is there in /Applications but I note that it's a symlink pointing to ../System/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications/Safari.app Also...

Whatever I do, Spotlight won't search my internal drive. It has no problem searching into any of my externals, but there is no results at all coming from the internal. Wether I specify to look only within Macintosh HD, or don't specify a location to look into at all, none of my files located on...

Sometime in the past week I noticed that spotlight on my Mac wasn't finding anything in /Applications. I have a 2017 MBP 13 inch and I have two bootable volumes, one with Mac OS 10.15.7 Catalina and one with Mac OS 13.2 Ventura. Oddly enough, this problem effects both OS when booted. I've tried...

Hi, guys I have problem that can't fix. Watching tons of videos in yt and reading threads in other forums and websites. Before when I pressed cmd + spacebar then type my query and press enter, Mac starting to search in safari( if it wasn't app or something like this), now it didn't working...

New to Ventura, Spotlight indexes images by content where the content may be some classification of objects in the image or the text in image. This can be used in the expected ways: Search in Spotlight or Finder for 'waterfall' and it shows me images with waterfalls. Use the Terminal command...

How to find the file path of a search result in Spotlight? In Monterey one would press the Command key and the file's path would be revealed, but that is not working in Ventura. Thanks

I have a folder which holds many other folders for various topics. These contain articles that I need to reference. When Spotlight is working, it is great. I can find relevant topics quickly -- infinitely faster than a Windows search. However, these searches only work for months (perhaps...