smorf Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 (edited) I´m really going crazy, Mojave (10.14.2) fixed a lot of problems, but also brought some new ones. My spotlight search only displays random things, but not the results I had in High Sierra. For instance, if I search for "iTunes" it returns this: iTunes is installed, the same happens with other programs and expected results. Spotlight is useless this way. I have already: disabled and re-enabled spotlight on the according drive disabled and re-enabled spotlight on the applications/programs folder disabled and re-enabled spotlight on all drives disabled and re-enabled that spotlight shows programs According to several sources this should force MacOS to index the folders/drives again, but it did not help. Any ideas? Thanks! Smorf Edited December 7, 2018 by smorf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smorf Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) Solution was found by coincidence. I mace a clone of my HDD using carbon copy cloner as a backup before i tried to fix the issue. out of curiosity i booted the clone. the clone´s spotlight worked. so i simply cloned it back again. explain that to me. Edited December 7, 2018 by smorf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndungu6678 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Surprisingly!, I also noticed the same thing! Whenever i update my Mojave versions (now on 10.4.2) they tend to run very slow immediately after update, but if I clone the partition using CCC, the clone is always much faster for some reason! Seems CCC fixes spotlights problems or something-thought i was the only one with that problem. Edited December 8, 2018 by ndungu6678 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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