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Cavara34

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Aug 14, 2012
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So I often run searches for instances of particular words and phrases amongst my pdfs. For years, I've done this through the Finder search with no trouble. Lately, on Sierra, certain folders aren't searched, the contents of most or any pdfs aren't searched, and so on.

Spotlight reindexing does nothing, changing the search parameters does nothing and EasyFind returns none of the results it should - no pdfs at all.

This seems absurd; it's a basic function. Is there any other solution to this? (I don't even know why it's happening.)
 
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