Hi all.
I have a weird problem. Spotlight's Document Container filter suddenly stopped working a day after I created a list of Smart Folders. One day to all worked beautifully the next day my MacBook Pro simply stopped returning results on Document Container filter. The exception (and weirdness of it) is that the filter still works as expected on all iCloud files. But any search anywhere on the hard drive (SSD) returns 0 results for any combination of Document Container conditions.
I've tried everything I could find.
There is really nothing else I could find. I still have the same situation. Document Container filter only works on iClouds documents. Hard drive shows 0 results. Does anyone have any suggestion or went through similar situation and found a solution. I created a list of smart folders to help me quickly access certain files and folder using Document Container filter. Worked one day, the next day they all showed 0 results.
I have a weird problem. Spotlight's Document Container filter suddenly stopped working a day after I created a list of Smart Folders. One day to all worked beautifully the next day my MacBook Pro simply stopped returning results on Document Container filter. The exception (and weirdness of it) is that the filter still works as expected on all iCloud files. But any search anywhere on the hard drive (SSD) returns 0 results for any combination of Document Container conditions.
I've tried everything I could find.
- I repaired permissions using Disk Utility.
- I reset permissions from the Restore menu.
- I dragged the hard drive to Privacy window and deleted again to reindex. Also tried restarting before reindexing.
- I tried using the command line to stop, clear, restart indexign.
- Finally, I revealed hidden files, deleted the Spotlight package, restarted and started Spotlight again.
- ...and I tried several other smaller command line tricks to no avail.
There is really nothing else I could find. I still have the same situation. Document Container filter only works on iClouds documents. Hard drive shows 0 results. Does anyone have any suggestion or went through similar situation and found a solution. I created a list of smart folders to help me quickly access certain files and folder using Document Container filter. Worked one day, the next day they all showed 0 results.