I have a '09 Macbook running 10.11.6, with Spotlight acting up.
Bringing up Spotlight with command-Space, and writing anything, only results in the first 2-4 characters being written, after which the Spotlight dialog freezes with the eternal wheel of doom showing up. Only solution is to kill the Spotlight process itself, after which you can repeat the problem if you wish.
I tried reindexing the Spotlight database using "sudo mdutil -E /", but surprisingly it only took it ~3 seconds to finish, which I found quite strange.
Any suggestions? My current last resort is to reinstall the system.
Bringing up Spotlight with command-Space, and writing anything, only results in the first 2-4 characters being written, after which the Spotlight dialog freezes with the eternal wheel of doom showing up. Only solution is to kill the Spotlight process itself, after which you can repeat the problem if you wish.
I tried reindexing the Spotlight database using "sudo mdutil -E /", but surprisingly it only took it ~3 seconds to finish, which I found quite strange.
Any suggestions? My current last resort is to reinstall the system.