WTF??? How'd this happen? (Spotlight window)

[ghall]

So I went to use Spotlight and I got this...

 

[JSchwage]

Wow, that's quite unnatural. Try rebooting and see if the problem doesn't go away.

 

[edesignuk]

Log out/log in. Reboot?

 

[PlaceofDis]

Log out/log in. Reboot?

still doing it after this... repair permissions?

 

[rdowns]

I was so looking forward to a new ghall thread. The title had me so excited.

 

[AdeFowler]

Mine was tucked under the menu bar the other day. I force quit Spotlight in Activity Monitor and all has been well since.

 

[Brianstorm91]

Sorry but for anyone else who's unsure, what exactly did you get?

 

[edesignuk]

Sorry but for anyone else who's unsure, what exactly did you get?

The Spotlight results menu appearing halfway down the screen

 

[iBlue]

Oooooor toss the plist file

Home folder > Library > Preferences > com.apple.spotlight.plist drag that file to the desktop and see if it fixes it.

 

[jackc]

It splattered water all over your screen? That's a serious bug.

 

[ghall]

I restarted and now it's fine. That was the weirdest thing.

 

[rdowns]

Your Mac knows what you've been doing online with that girl. This will not be the last anomaly you will see.

 

[netnothing]

Mine was tucked under the menu bar the other day. I force quit Spotlight in Activity Monitor and all has been well since.

Same for me once....and same result, I force quit of Spotlight in Activity Monitor solved the problem. I think a killall Spotlight would have worked as well....for the terminal inclined.

-Kevin

 

[Blogger]

I think it's a Leopard bug, because I had the same thing happen to the Date/ Time drop-down from the Menu Bar. So it's not Spotlight specific, but related to Menu items. A restart restored it.