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  1. purdnost

    Unable to Toggle Settings from Spotlight

    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...
    • purdnost
    • Thread
    • ios 17 search settings spotlight
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iOS 17
  2. P

    When I type search bar opens

    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...
  3. danev375

    Curious if your Mac OS version's Spotlight search returns results from within Library/Preferences?

    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...
    • danev375
    • Thread
    • spotlight spotlight index system
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  4. C

    External drive indexes, but then seems to lose 90% of the search-ability of the index.

    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...
  5. W

    MBP M1 - unresponsive, Spotlight issues, strange CPU spikes

    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...
    • Woyzeck
    • Thread
    • cpu consumption laggy ui mpb spotlight
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: macOS
  6. luckman212

    Safari.app missing from Spotlight search - Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68)

    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...
  7. M

    Spotlight searches limited to external drives

    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...
    • Martinpa
    • Thread
    • hard disk drive internal spotlight
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  8. A

    Spotlight not finding Applications

    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...
    • asus389
    • Thread
    • catalina mac os 10.15.7 mac os 13.2 spotlight ventura
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  9. M

    Spotlight safari searching issue.

    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...
  10. G

    Spotlight metadata for images

    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...
  11. cylack

    How to find file path of search result in Spotlight?

    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
  12. W

    Why must I constantly rebuild Spotlight index?

    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...
  13. halloleo

    How to avoid spotlight to read/write to an external drive?

    I have an external Time Machine drive "Follow" which I do not want to be used by Spotlight. So I made sure it is in Spotlight's exclusion list: However I can still (even after hours) here the external disk churning away. Looking at the open files with Sloth (a GUI to `lsof`) I get: This...
    • halloleo
    • Thread
    • external disk lsof mds mds_stores spotlight
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  14. jadraker

    Monterey 12.1 update broke my Outlook 365 search function

    Hello guys, Yesterday I updated my MBP to Monterey 12.1 and it was a terrible idea. Now my Outlook 365 search function is not working and it affected my performance at work. Now I need to open Outlook in Chrome in order to search emails. I tried to (without success): -Delete Outlook app (moved...
  15. L

    spotlight indexing runs at every reboot/boot ! never had that beforef

  16. purdnost

    iOS 15 New Spotlight Features MIA?

    Rich results Brings together all the information you’re looking for in one rich result. Available for contacts, actors, musicians, movies, and TV shows. Was planning to delete IMDb, but this feature seems to be missing. Anyone else?
    • purdnost
    • Thread
    • actors movies rich shows spotlight
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: iOS 15
  17. DC41

    Are Adobe CC and Spotlight killing me?

    Please take a look at the attached screenshots. I got about, what? 7 hours of use from my MBA (16GB/1TB) from 100% battery to 10%. No heavy usage... only browsers and Outlook on a strong WiFi connection. I think (but don't know) that Spotlight does most of its work when the machine is asleep or...
  18. A

    Create .dictionary file from .txt or other method

    Hi Guys! I already have a hungarian-english and english-hungarian dictionary, which is working fine with the original dictionary app (file extension: .dictionary). I would like to have a german-hungarian and hungarian-german dictionary too, but I've not found this type of dictionary file yet...
    • AGANG
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    • dictionaries dictionary dictionary app german hungarian spotlight txt
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  19. R

    Stop Spotlight from translating app names?

    I'm not even sure if this appeared just now (I was using Monolingual as well as trying to stop Spotlight from indexing external disks such as Time Machine backup) but this is when I noticed it. My whole system is installed in English, but I'm not in an English-speaking country or time-zone, and...
  20. S

    Incredible CPU drain from corespotlightd

    Hello Everyone, Ever since the last .1 upgrade to macOS 11.2.1 (20D74) I have had an incredible CPU drain from the background applicationEver since the last .1 upgrade to macOS 11.2.1 (20D74) I have had an incredible CPU drain from the background application corespotlightd. As this is an...
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