Spotlight completely broken?

[Brian Y]

Clean install of Big Sur, and spotlight seems to be completely broken - I just get no results for any search.

Manually re-enabling spotlight (with -E /) works, but it doesn't survive a reboot.

Any suggestions?

 

[w0lf]

Re-install?

 

[Brian Y]

Re-install?

This is a brand new clean install.

 

[w0lf]

This is a brand new clean install.

Doesn't change the fact that a re-install may fix the issue.

 

[bsmr]

Some for me - Spotlight broken. Doesn't work most of the time.

Already tried to reindex 🙁

 

[internetExplorer]

It took hours for mine to eventually work, I assume it was just indexing

 

[bsmr]

Maybe - but the issue is, that it sometimes doesn't find anything. and when it finds something I cannot push ENTER to start the app etc. (have to click mouse-button/touchpad).

Something is broken.

 

[ghboard2010]

I have had this problem since Catalina 15.1, {currently on Big Sur}. From Finder sidebar, I can click a tag yet nothing appears in the finder window related to the selected tag, a totally blank window. Clean install, clean re-install of Big Sur no joy 🙁

 

[christianji]

Maybe - but the issue is, that it sometimes doesn't find anything. and when it finds something I cannot push ENTER to start the app etc. (have to click mouse-button/touchpad).

Something is broken.

It's the same for me; Sometimes re-starting the Macbook or changing the user account solves this. Do you have your Mac setup for multiple user accounts? I have the feeling that it somehow is related to fast user switching.