Spotlight on OSX 10.5 Issue

[dyerucf]

Question, when I search using spotlight It does not show any applications. I am the administrator on the computer. I have all the box's checked in spotlight preferences.


Any help would be great. Thanx

[reh]

Have a look at the privacy tab in the spotlight preferences and make sure /Applications isn't listed there.

[dyerucf]

Is not checked

[skp574]

Question, when I search using spotlight It does not show any applications. I am the administrator on the computer. I have all the box's checked in spotlight preferences.


Any help would be great. Thanx


I experience the same thing. No apps appear in Spotlight results even though Apps are enabled and at the top of the search order.

[xUKHCx]

Have you tried rebuilding the spotlight index. To do this drag your hd to the privacy section of spotlight wait a little bit then remove it. You should see spotlight reindexing the hd.

[reh]

Is not checked

There aren't any checkmarks in the privacy tab, so if anything is listed, then it's not being searched.

[solvs]

Have you tried rebuilding the spotlight index. To do this drag your hd to the privacy section of spotlight wait a little bit then remove it. You should see spotlight reindexing the hd.

I use Onyx, cleans out the caches, repairs permissions, and rebuilds the Spotlight index if you configure it to.

[dyerucf]

I have rebuilt the index, two times. Still no luck. Any other ideas?

[x19]

Try deleting the Spotlight prefs file.

Your Username/Library/Preferences/

com.apple.spotlight.plist

You'd be amazed at what deleting a preference file can fix

[dyerucf]

I cant seem to find the directory you are speaking of. Also the file isnt in /Library/Preferences/

any help would be appreciated


Thank you

[dyerucf]

Try deleting the Spotlight prefs file.

Your Username/Library/Preferences/

com.apple.spotlight.plist

You'd be amazed at what deleting a preference file can fix

Found the file you mentioned, deleted it and no dice. Still no applications in the spotlite search.