WTF??? How'd this happen? (Spotlight window)

ghall

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 19, 2007

• #1

So I went to use Spotlight and I got this...

 

JSchwage

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 19, 2007

• #2

Wow, that's quite unnatural. Try rebooting and see if the problem doesn't go away.

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Dec 19, 2007

• #3

Log out/log in. Reboot?

 

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PlaceofDis

macrumors Core

• Dec 19, 2007

• #4

edesignuk said:

Log out/log in. Reboot?

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still doing it after this... repair permissions?

 

rdowns

macrumors Penryn

• Dec 19, 2007

• #5

I was so looking forward to a new ghall thread. The title had me so excited.

 

AdeFowler

macrumors 68020

• Dec 19, 2007

• #6

Mine was tucked under the menu bar the other day. I force quit Spotlight in Activity Monitor and all has been well since.

 

Brianstorm91

macrumors 65816

• Dec 19, 2007

• #7

Sorry but for anyone else who's unsure, what exactly did you get?

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Dec 19, 2007

• #8

Brianstorm91 said:

Sorry but for anyone else who's unsure, what exactly did you get?

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The Spotlight results menu appearing halfway down the screen 😉

 

iBlue

macrumors Core

• Dec 19, 2007

• #9

Oooooor toss the plist file

Home folder > Library > Preferences > com.apple.spotlight.plist drag that file to the desktop and see if it fixes it.

 

jackc

macrumors 65816

• Dec 19, 2007

• #10

It splattered water all over your screen? That's a serious bug.

 

ghall

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 19, 2007

• #11

I restarted and now it's fine. That was the weirdest thing.

 

rdowns

macrumors Penryn

• Dec 19, 2007

• #12

Your Mac knows what you've been doing online with that girl. This will not be the last anomaly you will see.

 

netnothing

macrumors 68040

• Dec 19, 2007

• #13

Southernboy said:

Mine was tucked under the menu bar the other day. I force quit Spotlight in Activity Monitor and all has been well since.

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Same for me once....and same result, I force quit of Spotlight in Activity Monitor solved the problem. I think a killall Spotlight would have worked as well....for the terminal inclined.

-Kevin

 

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Blogger

macrumors 6502

• Dec 21, 2007

• #14

I think it's a Leopard bug, because I had the same thing happen to the Date/ Time drop-down from the Menu Bar. So it's not Spotlight specific, but related to Menu items. A restart restored it.