OS X :: Spotlight Cannot Find Some Folders
Oct 8, 2008I went to search for "ColorSync" in Spotlight but it wasn't able to pull up the folder. It exists though @ Macintosh HD > Users > Chris > Library > ColorSync
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OS X :: Spotlight Not Showing User Folders?
Jun 11, 2009i 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 29, 2009Well, I use Spotlight religiously on a daily, hourly, maybe minute basis. I have a ton of organized folders under my Documents and when I search for any of those folders in spotlight no results are yielded. Not even if the whole folder is typed out, or even just partial. I tried typing in many different folder names I have but nothing.
Then I tried typing in spotlight the names of Pages files, Excel Files, Word, etc...you name it. But nothing.
OS X :: Ignoring Specific Folders In Spotlight?
Oct 1, 2009iPhoto has duplicated all my photo folders, so that searching for "holiday 2009" comes out with two difference results. One in the original location I put the folder, and another inside the iPhoto package.
Is there any way of hiding a particular folder or telling it to ignore anything inside iPhoto's package? So that I only end up with one result.
OS X :: Cannot Find Terminal In Spotlight
Aug 15, 2009I've looked at what others have done to find it, and I cannot find my terminal. I've used it before and now it's just gone....
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Jul 18, 2010I have several LaCie external drives connected to my iMac (OS 10.6.4). Spotlight fails to find things on these drives, particularly folders, even though they are not excluded (private) in Spotlight Preferences. I once had this problem and was instructed to force an indexing. However I have forgotten how to do that.
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Oct 9, 2010went to apps>utilities but its not there.. also searched in spotlight but cant find it there either.. what can i do?
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Mar 28, 2008I recently lost some bookmarks in firefox. I know these are stored somewhere with the filename bookmarks.html so I searched with spotlight to locate it
It brings up no results - I have 2 HD's but have it set on 'search my mac' which is both of them.
I can locate the file myself through users>library>application support etc but is there a reason spotlight can't find it? I have my preferences set to show everything.
Applications :: Using Spotlight And Safari 4's Find
Apr 12, 2009If I hit command-space and begin typing something in Spotlight, then go to Safari 4 and hit command-F, the search box is prefilled with whatever I typed in Spotlight. I don't know if this is the intended behavior or not, but I don't recall it happening in Safari 3.
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May 7, 2009I was searching for terminal in spotlight and it cant be found?Is there any other way to open up terminal if its not in my dock?
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Jun 18, 2009Spotlight keeps freezing and beachballing when I try to search anything. It may have something to do with yesterday when I killed the mdworker process in terminal because it was eating up too much cpu. Spotlight doesnt find anything besides dictionary definitions, but it does it really slowly with lots of freezes and beachballs
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Nov 10, 2009Just started using notes in mail.app to keep track of daily items that I used to write down in a notebook. Today, needed to spotlight a note and found that I can't find any notes with spotlight. Missing something?
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Feb 22, 2012I can´t find Macintosh HD through Finder or Spotlight. I don´t know how this happened, either. how to restore the order of things?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X :: Spotlight Cannot Find Stuff Recently Added
Jul 9, 2008Ok, so for the past few weeks spotlight has not been working. It would not find things that I had recently put on my system. So I fiddled around with it by doing this:
sh-3.2# mdutil -E /
/:
No index.
It shot me a no index error. I kept trying different things including deleting the index file through the Finder. I finally turned off spotlight with mdutil -i off /. I restarted and tried to turn it back on and it would give me this error:
sh-3.2# mdutil -i on /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-100)
No index.
Then I did rm /.Spotlight-V100 and deleted the spotlight index and restarted. Now it searches for files and it has all the files in the index, but it no longer does calculator or dictionary searches. Using mdutil -E / returns this:
sh-3.2# mdutil -E /
/:
No index.
mdutil -s / returns this:
sh-3.2# mdutil -s /
/:
No index.
But I can still use spotlight to find files. Typing something into the menubar gives back accurate results without calculator or dictionary results. So what do I do to fix it without a reinstall of 10.5? This is my 2.4 ghz Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. The drive is 160 GB.
OS X :: Won't Work With Spotlight Indexing / Can't Find Options
Mar 25, 2010I noticed my "spotlight" icon has a pulsing dot in the center of the magnifying glass icon....when I click on it there is a progress bar and it is perpetually "indexing" my hard drive.
Whats this mean? Is my HDD going to fail? Its been going on like this for months. Running Drive Utility, Techtool or Disk Warrior doesn't fix it.
I fixed permissions and repaired the disk off the Snow Leopard book disk, problem persists.
OS X :: Spotlight Cannot Find Files In Library/preferences
Jun 13, 2010I just got the new MBP recently. Everything works fine. Just a bit curious. When I try to find some file in finder, the files in ~/library/preferences don't come up.
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May 31, 2012I'm using OSX Snow Leopard. Spotlight was unable to find a document in a folder. It found several others that have almost the same name, but not the one I was looking for. By scrolling down in the finder window I found it without spotlight right away.
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"
I checked the Spotlight options and it says, that it is looking for everything.
Applications :: Spotlight Doesn't Find Words In Pdf Documents?
Dec 7, 2009Whenever I'm in a folder which has pdf documents inside and a search a word in the search field in the finder the results are a total mess. It sometimes finds the words inside the pdfs and sometimes it doesn't. What is worse is that whenever I open a pdf with preview, it almost NEVER finds the word I'm looking. It just shows the loading sign and never return results.
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Apr 3, 2012I have a very odd problem. Spotlight can't find TextEdit anymore, even if I type the name of the app fully in the field. The app is right where it should be in the Applications folder. It hasn't been excluded from search and I have done a reindex of Spotlight but the problem persists. Other apps come up exactly right.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Find The Path To A File In A Spotlight Search Result?
May 24, 2012how to find the path to a file in a Spotlight search result. In Snow Leopard I would get the path to a file or folder by just holding the mouse over the search result in Spotlight. I don't see that in Lion.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Mountain Lion :: How To Find Path To Folder Listed In Spotlight
Aug 25, 2014When I have an item listed in a Spotlight search that is in a folder I'm actually looking for, how do I figure out where the folder is located? I often remember a document or app and want to add something to the same folder, but can't find it-- Spotlight does not give the path that I can see.
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Intel IMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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.
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: Best Way To Find Huge Folders / Files?
Sep 26, 2010I have read these forums/google for a definitive/best way to track down the files that are clogging up your hard drive. I've tried the Smart Folder route and for whatever reason it doesn't work as well as I'd like. What is the best way to do this?
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Jul 16, 2009I have a new PC running Windows 7 RC, but I can't get it to find the shared folders on my Macs, nor can my Macs see the shared folders on the PC. Any ideas how to get at least one way working (preferably so that the Macs can see the PC).I'm running 10.5.7, and if I "Connect to Server" and dial in smb:// and the PCs IP address, I get a login window, but it won't let me log in. I have no password on the PC.
Also, I followed the advice in another post here, http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=635271), but it didn't make any difference.
OS X Yosemite :: 10.10.1 - How To Find Invisible Folders
Dec 9, 2014I need to find the Library Folder in my User's folder, since that is where my Quicken 2015 data is stored. When I use the Open command in Quicken I get the following path to the Quicken 2015 Data File:
User > My User's Folder > Library > Application Support > Quicken 2015 > Data Files
When I try to access that through my Macintosh HD there is no Library Folder in my User's Folder. I am guessing it is invisible, how do I find it? I am running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1.
OS X :: Can Limit Folders Find In Spaces Function
Sep 12, 2009I am running Spaces (snow leopard) is there a way so that each space has a different DESKTOP view? That is, I could have a folder appear in space 1, but not 2, 3 or 4? Or is this only do-able by using different accounts?
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Aug 24, 2010I'm looking for a photo management program that will organize my photos using folders for events, so if I ever decide to switch programs, it will be easy because it's all organized already. I currently have iPhoto, but it doesn't seem to create folders in the "Pictures" directory, so I doubt switching to another program from iPhoto will be simple. Do any of you know of an app that does what I want?
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Sep 11, 2010Four years ago I bought the iMac I am using right now, I was a PC user (actually used Macs in the 90s) and I never knew if I was doing things properly. Since I am buying a new iMAc next week I need to know how to organize folders.
In my current iMac I have all my applications in the applications folder, I think that is ok. But for example, for my Photoshop and Flash projects I have made a folder in the Macintosh HD with my name and inside that folder I have many other folders. How should I organize my work? Should I put them in the documents folder or what?
MacBook Air :: Can't Find Windows Files Or Folders That Were Migrated
Apr 1, 2012I'm new to mac. Used migration assistant to transfer my data files and folders from windows 7 system. The files are there as I can search for a specific file and find it but I don't see any of the folders or files in finder. I have reviewed other forum entries asking questions like this and answers seem to direct folks to another user account but I don't have another user account on this system after migrating.
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Apr 9, 20121) i find few email folders empty though there are mails like my unread mails folder empty , mails recd today folder is empty.
2) also if i try search earlier with just @company id i could get all emails now i just get few though mails are available.
i have 18k mails what happens if i apply all rulles ?
