Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Spotlight Gone????

M

Macmadant

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
I only just noticed my little blue spotlight icon has disapeared from my menu bar tried looking in system prefrences but can't figure out why anybody help
 

Attachments

  • Picture 1.png
    Picture 1.png
    223.5 KB · Views: 250
yes i have restarted, yes i have done the frontrow thing but that was about 6 months ago, and i have done this on my other mac and the spotlight logo is still there. and on my ibook it was there until a couple of days ago😕
 
I'd actually like to know how you did this because I am TRYING to get rid of the Spotlight icon from my menu bar. QuickSilver has long taken care of any use for Spotlight for me.

And on a 12" iBook, Menu Bar real estate is pretty valuable to me.
 
My spotlight is showing up but it is not working. No matter what I put in it says no results found.

Any ideas?
 
achie25 said:
My spotlight is showing up but it is not working. No matter what I put in it says no results found.

Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Mine did that a while ago, but it's working now. Have you tried restarting?
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
I'd actually like to know how you did this because I am TRYING to get rid of the Spotlight icon from my menu bar. QuickSilver has long taken care of any use for Spotlight for me.

And on a 12" iBook, Menu Bar real estate is pretty valuable to me.
Click to expand...

Apparently, in your case, you'll be rewarded for pirating FrontRow. 😱 😉 😀
 
This might help

Macmadant said:
I only just noticed my little blue spotlight icon has disapeared from my menu bar tried looking in system prefrences but can't figure out why anybody help
Click to expand...

startup volume/system/library/launchagents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist
get (extendede) info for this file.
permissions should be: system read and write; the rest only read.
fuddling with this will cause problems.
b.t.w: opening in property list editor gives the opportunity to "keep it alive" or not, i.e. to activate the program or not.
working in the terminal: man mdutil, etc.
hope this helps
KL:apple::apple:S:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back