OS X :: Searching For Terminal In Spotlight - Can't Find
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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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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I honestly don't know what the problem is, but if I had to make a guess, it would be all of the things that our devices can connect to with AirPort. There is Motorola, 2WIRE017, 2WIRE160, 2WIRE417, 2WIRE730, MartinWirelessRouter, NorzWireless, NETGEAR, schooly, and stackdaddy. I think all of these wireless connections are disrupting one another, which is what I thought was causing the problem. The only one I ever care to connect to is Motorola, so is there a way to prevent my computer from even recognizing anything else?
OS X :: Spotlight Cannot Find Some Folders
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OS X :: Spotlight Fails To Find Things
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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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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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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Sep 13, 2010I'm looking to set some virtual hosts up in Terminal. I'm accessing the set up fine (sudo nano /private/etc/hosts)
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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.
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To better explain my problem:
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OS X :: Unable To Unlock Terminal / Can't Find Settings
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