Terminal application is missing

[macJC50640]

Where the heck is my terminal?! 😱
I was looking for it in Spotlight etc. and I just can't find it! Please help, this is so strange -- how could it just not be here? 😕
Any help is greatly appreciated, I am truly stunned.

 

[fireshot91]

Wow that must suck.


Did you change your Spotlight preferences to not search your Macintosh HD drive?

 

[macJC50640]

Nope, checked my settings and Spotlight is searching everywhere. Terminal is not in my Trash either -- I never emptied my Trash since I got the computer so...

But the Terminal application is still there because when I click on a terminal shell script such as "uninstall.command" it opens up Terminal. It just doesn't show up in my filesystem. I need ideas, I'm starting to get worried.

 

[dvince2]

Terminal still opens? While its open, right click on the app in the dock and select "locate in finder" to see where its running from.

 

[Guiyon]

Have you tried checking in "/Applications/Utilities" and looking (manually) for "Terminal.app"?

 

[gavin83209]

Terminal still opens? While its open, right click on the app in the dock and select "locate in finder" to see where its running from.

Specifically, command-click on the title bar of the window that Terminal is in to see the path. I would recommend that you do an mv <path>/Terminal.app /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app to resolve the problem. I've never heard of this happening before. Very strange.

 

[sheepopo39]

hmm, what I've noticed with my m is that sometimes Spotlight doesn't notice or see an application I just recently downloaded due to the fact that it wasn't indexed yet or something, but this shouldn't be happening with Terminal, I'd go with what the guy earlier said and go into Applications>Utilities and manually opening Terminal to see if it fixes it.