OS X Mavericks :: Applications Not Showing In Spotlight?
Aug 31, 2014
For some reason, even though I have 'Applications' listed as number one for searching in Spotlight - they don't show up at all.
Any documents or mails about the app get lists but not the applications.
Interesting that even using the Alfred add-on, I can type the app name in and again don't get it in the search at all.
I tried rebuilding using disk utility as well as Onyx - to no success.
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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Jun 11, 2009
i just got my macbook pro 4 days ago and i can't figure out why spotlight does not find my documents folder, pictures folder, or several things in my user section.
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Jun 25, 2014
I have a new USB 2/3 portable external drive, the kind without a spinning disk. I have been using Super Duper! to make a bootable backup, but it has been taking forever (3+ days) to copy my 435 GB of data.
When writing back, someone at Super Duper support asked if I had added my drive to Spotlight Privacy. I looked this up in the Apple knowledge base, but no definition turned up.
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Jun 30, 2014
I have a number of Mac's (all running Mavericks), connecting to a shared folder on a Mac we use as a 'server' (it doesn't run server software though, just Snow Leopard client).
Does Mavericks Mac's use the 'spotlight index' of this shared, networked, Snow Leopard Mac, or when we search it, it's just searching the actual file structure?
I'm having issues with searching this networked Mac (some files not being found and then a on later search they appear), and I don't know whether a rebuilding of the spotlight index on the networked Mac is a relevant troubleshooting step.
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Jun 28, 2014
I just noticed that Spotlight does not seem to index the content of .txt files. It will pick up search strings in the names of text files, but not in the contents. Is there any way to get Spotlight to index the content of .txt files?
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Sep 12, 2014
For the past few weeks, my macbook pro battery drains very fast. It always shows that Spotlight using 99% to 100% of energy. With no app running i get only approx 2 hrs battery life. Battery status is pretty ok with current max capacity as 4817 mAh and system says battery health is normal. I tried unchecking all the items which Spotlight searches from the System preferences and I have also reset SMC & PRAM but of no use.
My macbook pro config:
13inch Mid 2012
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Jul 1, 2014
Spotlight still wanting to reindex their mac after every restart/reboot - the finder becomes completely bogged down until spotlight finishes reindexing my mid 2011 iMac hard drive. I have tried a clean install from scratch, clearing the caches, deleting the spotlight files and letting it reindex from scratch, nothing seems to get rid of the initial lag once the desktop first appears - it happens after every restart or initial boot up….as soon as the icons for the hard drive appears, it immediately goes into "reindexing iMac hard drive" and takes a few minutes to complete, during that time, the computer is totally unresponsive to anything until it finishes. (Computer configuration = Mid 2011 iMac with 16GB ram and 500GB H.D. that has over 200GB of free space - Time machine backs up to a 2TB Lacie D2 Drive via firewire 800).
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Aug 27, 2014
For some reason when I use finder, I see all related files, but it doesn't have a "pop up" where the path to that file is. I have gone into spotlight preferences and can't seem to find a button or setting that allows me to see paths.
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Mac Pro, Other OS, early 2009 8 core 2.4Ghz Mavericks
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Aug 26, 2014
Results always appear by date... How can i make results appear by name instead of dates ?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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Jun 4, 2014
I have a brand new iMac, that often displays an error stating the mac is out of memory. The mac has 16GB of memory and usually the only software used is Office products and Safari. I noticed that the machine would run out of memory when the mac is doing its index. I can usully see this happening in the spotlight. Below is a screen shot of the activity monitor.
Mac specs: Mac OS X 10.9.3Intel Core i716GB RAM1TB Hard Drive
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Jun 25, 2014
Since the latest upgrade of 10.9.3 my and other office computers have problems with searches using spotlight and Finder search on internal, external and networked volumes. This is a big roadblock to our office workflow. Reindexing doesn't fix the issue and we can see clearly that the files we are searching for are there.
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Aug 22, 2014
MacKeeper relentlessly pops up when I search anything. No trace of it in applications. Found no files in spotlight.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Jun 19, 2014
I have a 2012 iMac with 2 partitions, one main partition running Mavericks and one smaller partition running Mountain Lion. I normally do all my work in Mavericks, but sometimes I need to boot into Mountain Lion and do a few things. When booting back into Mavericks it takes at least 30 minutes (if not more) for my Mac to get back to full speed. I think it's primarily due to the spotlight indexing which goes on for 30 minutes or more after the restart. In spotlight prefs I do have my Mountain Lion disk added to privacy so that it won't be indexed, but that doesn't appear to solve the problem. what exactly is it indexing after a reboot and why does it take so long.I would really like my Mac usable at normal speeds within a couple of minutes after a reboot at most.
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Jun 5, 2014
i installed beta version of mac yosemite and i got two problems:
1. iTunes icon didn't change
2. Spotlight crashes when writing the first word
what should i do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 4, 2014
I am really careful about OXS upgrades, I have a Macbook Air 13" 4GB/256GB ssd, 2013. last monday I finally did the Mavericks upgrade; Mountain Lion was working great, but as Yosemite coming soon, I thought that was a good time to do it. Guess what...
Time Machine is NOT WORKING. I never had a problem with TM, and I use Mac since 90's, so I even can't remember when it came out, but I trade at least 4 Macs using TM and never had an issue.
Now, over Mavericks, it is taking forever. By just now, after almost 30 hours, it is backing up 8.57 GB of 60 GB. I already did the reformating of the TM's drive, it did not work.
I got a new HD external, reformatted on Disk Utility, turno ON and OFF and ON TIme Machine as I read it many times on other posts, and nothing.. It is just taking forever. I never saw this on any other OSX.
Spotlight is indexing too, taking too long, and probably this is the reason (or one of the reasons...) for TM take so long.
I started over wifi, I have an Aiport Express Extended thing, but my Macbook is really close to the first one, on the chain. I made sure that airport is connected to this one, and, it is.
I plugged my TrendNet USB-Ethernet cable, which works really great and fast. Nothing changes, System Preferences recognizes both connections, wifi and ethernet, both are working, but speed did not change at all...
I can't really believe that Apple will leave Time Machine users on this ridiculous situation. But what to do next.
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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Sep 3, 2014
Example: when I type 'wireless info' into Spotlight on my computer the document 'wireless info' is the 29th search result listed. The top hit is a mail message named 'Re: Re: Reset the device, and new wireless info'. The other 27 items in the list above the document I was looking for are things like 'Introducing Portland.doc' and 'Les Amis B&B'.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
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Sep 8, 2014
OSX 10.9.4
Calendar Version 7.0 (1841.1)
Why don't hyperlinks show in Calendar meetings? These are generated from Company Google Calendar (Google Apps) and show up in Outlook. I would like to click on the webex link to attend a meeting.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Dec 4, 2014
i got a problem report pop up from Firefox today, usually it's not an issue but this came up in a strange language, one i had never seen before, every language is sent to English ive checked everything, worried somebody could be accessing my iMac from another location, did the usual net stat, last press & users commands and it hasn't come up with anything untoward, just a little worried about it cos it was really strange.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Jun 21, 2014
A few weeks ago iMessage on my Mac started doing an annoying thing where all my outgoing iMessages are blank, but the incoming messages are fine. So I can't see my side of any conversation. But I can see both sides properly on iOS (iPhone and iPad). So if someone starts messaging me when I am on my laptop, I have to have my phone turned on too so I can follow the conversation properly, as all of my replies are disappearing the instant I hit return to send them.
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Aug 27, 2014
As the picture below, my system password dialog box is showing as all symbols, with no readable text. This isn't program dependant, it happens for everything. Is there any way to fix this?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Jun 3, 2014
how do i stop text messages from showing up on my mac?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Sep 8, 2014
Some apps in the applications folder are not showing up in launchpad. To be exact, iTunes.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 27, 2014
I have a status Item app andI am using a custom view. My image in the status item has been showing and working until recently. Is it something I have changed or maybe it was a bug that it was showing and now it fix.
Here is the relevant code:
AppDelegate.h#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>@class View; @interface AppDelegate : NSObject <NSApplicationDelegate>{ NSStatusItem *statusItem; View *_View; NSImage *statusImage; NSImage *statusHighlightImage; NSMenu *statusMenu;} - (IBAction)shutdown:(id)sender;- (IBAction)restart:(id)sender;- (IBAction)sleep:(id)sender;- (IBAction)about:(id)sender; @property (assign) IBOutlet NSWindow *aboutWindow;
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Aug 29, 2014
Running Mavericks 10.9.4. For some reason Launchpad is no longer showing on the dock. I probably inadvertently trashed it, but how do I get it back?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Sep 2, 2014
Using an iMac 2011 with Mavericks 10.9.4. Been having issues with the Mail client leaving mail that has been read in the 'unread' smart box. The account is an IMAP, and I have done the empty the whole thing and start over routine, and that works. However I don't want to keep having to do this over and over, since some of my boxes are large.
is there something that I need to do on the other end of the IMAP, since the email is on a domain I own, not gmail or yahoo.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Jun 3, 2014
I was working on a iMac running Snow Leopard, trying to change the home folder of the previous owner, call her Kathy, to the new owner, Barb, because Barb needs access to all of Kathy's folders, email, etc.
Right now all I have in Users is Admin. Barb's account is appearing in Groups, not Users. And I'm not sure if all of Kathy's data is in Barb's account.
How do I get Barb's account back into Users?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Sep 12, 2014
On some of my Macs, the Finder shows Bonjour/SMB/Windows servers (see screenshot below)
But on others, they're missing. How to get them to show up?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Aug 25, 2014
A while back I started noticing some odd behaviour in Messages App
We use this at the office to communicate between systems, and often send image files back and forth between co-workers. Recently though a bug began in which images don't actually show in line, but rather simply show the filename and a link to open it in Finder.
The weirdest part of the bug is that if the chat window is open in the background the image will display just fine. However as soon as I switch to make it active in order to respond or quicklook the image it immediately becomes the filename with the magnifying glass icon to direct me to it's location in finder.
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Dec 11, 2014
I'm using Finder to search for files on a server connected to my computer at work. The search results I am getting do not include all the files that meet my search criteria. For example, I am looking through photo files for any files with "34" in the name. Some files show up, but not all of them. See screenshot. I am searching in the "Branded Photoshoot" folder, and I am getting some results (Branded Photoshoot/Hilton Universal/IMG_1434), but another file that is in folder, though a different subfolder, (Branded Photoshoot/Architectural Center/IMG_1534) is NOT showing up. What is causing that subfolder and its files to not be included in the search results?
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
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Jun 4, 2014
I notice the Archive mailbox in Apple Mail has disappeared. I can find messages in that mailbox using Searchlight if I know the exact contents of the message or subject but I use this mailbox to store application licenses, etc., and do not always know the right subject. I used to browse, knowing roughly the time when I bought the licese. Also the Flagged mailbox is grayed out in the favorites line and not shown in the left hand mailbox side bar.Also a pain because I set reminder messages and conference call emails with colored flags.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 500 GB Flash HD
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