This process appeared to work for me. As it's a database, wouldn't it be nice if without external tools we can force a re-index from with Settings? Just sayin'. And thank you!
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What the HELL is up with Spotlight?
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(In case it was unclear from the conversation: apparently what's accomplished by killing the process is something other than a re-indexing. The officially-recommended procedure for re-indexing does indeed occur in Settings.)
Now I get it. The killing of the processes appeared to have addressed my issue for now. I was unable to find files via the Finder also but don't really have any insight as to what has at least temporarily fixed the issue over here. Of course I keep piling beta versions on top of each other and I need to still clean some older remnants up.
I am experiencing the issues with Spotlight on my M2 Mac Air at 26.0.1. It finds some stuff, but none of my Microsoft apps. I tried the suggestions in this thread. No luck. It's second nature for me to launch some apps this way and it sucks that it is broken.
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when you search for a specific image, it throws up the idiotic thumbnail, a firefox shortcut (!), but no 'search in finder' option, so you have to click something called 'show more', which then becomes 'search in app', and only then does it open the finder window, with (kind:image OR kind:movie) added before the file name in the search box for good measure. what kind of idiot came up with this is anyone's guess.
Oh I know but I've loved using Alfred now since it started. They keep amazing me with their updates and advances.
Alfred is FREE but I've donated to their cause to help them keep going!
Thanks for mentioning the "Allow siri to learn from how you use this application in order to make suggestions across applications" found under Settings -> Apple Intelligence & Siri -> About Siri, Dictation & Privacy -> EVERY APP.
Ah, yet another let-us-spy-on-you turned on by default.
I wonder if it's necessary to uncheck this for every app in the left hand list if we have Apple Intelligence and Siri disabled? Seems strange to even give us access to these options if Siri is disabled...
my iphone is old, but it's kind of same story, every time you install an app, you then have to go and disable siri in its settings, even though siri itself is off.
No problems are inherent in simply upgrading your OS. The main benefit of a clean install is removing third-party software -- particularly those with background processes, or things that meddle with the system -- which might not be compatible with the new OS. Corrupt user plist files might also be an issue. Most of the system databases are recreated on a new OS.
And of course, if you restore/migrate all your apps and settings, then you've rendered the whole exercise pointless.
The benefits and necessity for a clean install are largely over-stated, particularly if you don't install junk. I used to update-install every OS version, and even clone my disk from one Mac to the next, from 2002 to 2018, without any clean installs.
As to the problem with Spotlight -- it's weird that some users have problems with it, and some don't. There must be some root cause. I'd say it's worth persevering with, as it's pretty integral to lots of Mac functionality.
I only ever use Spotlight for quick math queries. It's practically useless for anything else. When it first launched it was simple and brilliant now it's so convoluted and 90% of the time its just quicker to search manually than try and interpret whatever it spits out; like a lot of Apple's stuff these days.