OS X Mavericks :: Spotlight - How To Make Results Appear By Name Instead Of Dates
Aug 26, 2014Results 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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OS X Mavericks :: Getting Spotlight To List Search Results By Closest Name Match Not Document Type?
Sep 3, 2014Example: 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'.Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
OS X :: Odd Spotlight Search Results
May 12, 2009I'm searching for a file in Finder. When I select "Preferences", which is the directory I'm in, it finds the file but when I select "This Mac" it doesn't.
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Jan 5, 2011Finder and Spotlight on my 10.6.5 Macbook are no longer returning results. Even within folders, querying ".pdf", for example returns no hits. Smart-folders with 'file kind' parameters also remain empty. How do I fix this?I have tried to find an answer using the MR "search forums" function, but can't figure out how to correctly enter the query to give specific results, (for example, it just returns lots of threads with "results" rather than "no results".
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Aug 28, 2009you can't sort your spotlight results by size unless you are in Icon view. How did they leave that out of List view? That is the only feature I'd hoped would be introduced in SL. It makes Spotlight searches as useless as they were in 10.5.
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Oct 24, 2009You know how you can calculate numbers in spotlight? It used to give me the answers but now it just says no results found. Oh and I enabled the calculator via the terminal command that I found through this and restarted but still doesn't do calculations
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Why Does Spotlight Give No Results On Mail And Calendar
Feb 1, 2012Since 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:
1. Delete all my accounts on (is IMAP) and redownloaded them from the server.
2. Removed envelope files in Library folder mail
3. Add harddisk to privacy map on spotlight preferences and removed it (saw reindexing from harddisk)
4. Checked terminal with following command: 'sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/*', results:
/Volumes/Backups: Indexing disabled.
/Volumes/Server Data: Indexing enabled.
/: Indexing enabled.
(Backups is external network drive for backups).
(Server Data is external USB drive for data from clients)
(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)
OS X Yosemite :: Spotlight Search - No Results From Seagate Back Up Plus
Dec 11, 2014I upgraded about a month ago from 10.6. I have since discovered that Spotlight will show up search results using a Western Digital external drive but no results when I use my Seagate Back Up Plus external drive, which is the main drive I use. How to get Spotlight to get to search the Seagate drive?Â
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 21.5" Mid July 2011
Intel Mac :: Why Won't Spotlight Find A Text Document In Search Results A 2nd Time
Apr 15, 2012I 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.Â
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X Mavericks :: How To Get Rid Of Multiple Repetitions Of Dates In Calendar
Jun 22, 2014For some reason probably the result of mistakes in synching, I have multiple entries of dates mostly birthdays showing in my iPad and MacMini. I can delete then one at a time,but with 156 repeats in one case, it becomes tedious. Where can I find the fields to delete the extra dates?
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Jun 6, 2014Day X: Mail 1 arrives in my Apple Mail Inbox, Shows the date as Day X.
Day Y: Mai 2 arrives in my Apple Mail Inbox. Shows the date as Day Y.
Day Z: The date shown for May 1 is Day Z. The date for Mail 2 shows as Day Z.Â
This does not always happen, but seemingly is happening more and more.Â
I have tried quitting and restarting the program. Rebooting Mavericks (Late 2008 MacBook Air). I upgraded to Mavericks when it first came out and didn't see this problem right away.Â
I have also quit Mail, changed the time zone in System Preferences, Quit and reopened System Preferences. and changed it back to the correct time zone.Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
OS X Mavericks :: Can't Access Search Results On Finder After System Is Updated
Aug 28, 2014I work everyday with my 21.5' iMac and it had OS Lion before I updated to Mavericks last month. As I work with lots of files, I have also a 1TB Lacie external drive pluged into it via firewire and I constantly access these files. After I updated though, I'm experiencing a strange problem. Everytime I search for a file on Finder, all the results that come up can't be edited or even selected. This is driving me crazy because I must open another tab and go all the way through the file I want as I can't select any file from the searches. All the search results come up written in gray color and with a empty circle on its left side. I can't even click on them! For better explanation, here is a picture of what happens:
Before the update, I used to normally access every result the search came up to.
I have another iMac here in the network with Mavericks too and all the searches returns with selectable and editable results.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Intel Mac :: Make Spotlight Show The Directory Location Of A Found File?
May 22, 2012How can I make spotlight show the directory location of a found file?Â
Previous Mac search engines would show the directory location of a found file. This feature seems to be missing from spotlight in Lion. Am I using it correctly?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Mavericks :: How To Add A Drive To Spotlight
Jun 25, 2014I 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. Â
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.
OS X Mavericks :: Spotlight Search On Networked Mac?
Jun 30, 2014I 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).Â
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?Â
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.Â
OS X Mavericks :: Applications Not Showing In Spotlight?
Aug 31, 2014For 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.Â
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.Â
I tried rebuilding using disk utility as well as Onyx - to no success.Â
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
OS X Mavericks :: Can Spotlight Index TXT Files?
Jun 28, 2014I 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, 2014For 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)
OS X Mavericks :: 10.9.4 - Spotlight Reindexing After Every Boot / Restart
Jul 1, 2014Spotlight 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, 2014For 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.Â
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Mac Pro, Other OS, early 2009 8 core 2.4Ghz Mavericks
OS X Mavericks :: Spotlight Indexing Causes Memory Leak?
Jun 4, 2014I 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.Â
Mac specs: Mac OS X 10.9.3Intel Core i716GB RAM1TB Hard Drive
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
OS X Mavericks :: Spotlight And Finder Search Isn't Working Fully?
Jun 25, 2014Since 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, 2014MacKeeper 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)
OS X Mavericks :: Spotlight Indexing Takes Too Long After Restart
Jun 19, 2014I 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, 2014i 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)
OS X Mavericks :: Time Machine Extremely Slow - Spotlight Never Finishes Indexing
Jun 4, 2014I 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...Â
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... Â
I can't really believe that Apple will leave Time Machine users on this ridiculous situation. But what to do next.Â
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
OS X Mavericks :: Setup Wants To Make Changes Keeps Popping Up?
Aug 30, 2014having trouble installing a trial of Adobe Premiere, every time i try to start the installation a security popup window appears saying:
"Setup wants to make changes. type your password to allow this"
i enter my password, box goes away, then reappears.
Im definitely entering password correctly as it says i don't if i don't!
my account is Admin, have tried the other account on the mac, have tried creating a new account, tried numerous restarts, tried downloading a different trial.
OS X Mavericks :: Can Burn MP4 File To Make DVD
Aug 31, 2014I'm having trouble making a DVD from an .mp4 file. Is it possible to burn an .mp4 file to a DVD? I need such a disc to be able to play in a DVD player. I could do it in previous Mac OSX's but can't seem to on Mavericks.
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Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Safari :: Selecting Dates From Several Websites
Mar 25, 2012Attempting to select dates from several websites results in an error in Safari (not Chrome or Firefox) in which all months are listed as January. I have this problem on two macs running Safari 10.7.3. E.g. [URL]
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Aperture :: Can't Correct Picture Dates
Dec 8, 2014I have a 25K Aperture library that I've transferred from computer to computer over the years. Lately I have notice that a few picture have changed dating. When I try to correct the date I get a splash screen saying that I can't continue because the picture is locked or I don't have permission.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
