Intel Mac :: Why Won't Spotlight Find A Text Document In Search Results A 2nd Time

Apr 15, 2012

I can type a search word into Spotlight. It will show results. I then open let's say an Appleworks text document from that search.  Then I close that document and retry the same search: Now that same document will not show up in the search results for that exact word and it WILL NEVER show up again in search results.  In other words after a file has been found and opened in search once , it will never appear in search results again for the same word. 

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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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To better explain my problem:

I was looking for a document that was called "Paperless". Spotlight found several document in different folders like "Paperlessone", Paperless2" etc. But not able to find "Paperless" 

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May 24, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Feb 23, 2012

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jul 29, 2009

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System Information:

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EDIT: Since 10.5.8 was released, I am running 10.5.8.

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Oct 13, 2009

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Feb 14, 2012

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Mar 18, 2012

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Oct 24, 2009

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Feb 1, 2012

Since some time my search functions in Mail and Calendar aren't working properly. I can find my mails in the spotlight function from lion itself, but inside the mail program I get no results.

I tried several things:
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2. Removed envelope files in Library folder mail
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/Volumes/Backups: Indexing disabled.
/Volumes/Server Data: Indexing enabled.
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(Backups is external network drive for backups).
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(Server Systems is local drive, not shown in terminal ?!?)

Possible causes to problem: Reinstalled server software (and got it working properly this time), Renamed harddisk, installed back-up software named carbon copy cloner, setup VPN.

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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May 11, 2012

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May 18, 2012

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Before the update, I used to normally access every result the search came up to.

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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Jun 24, 2010

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