{"id":7983,"date":"2021-03-01T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:55:16","slug":"having-trouble-finding-files-on-your-mac-heres-how-to-reset-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/having-trouble-finding-files-on-your-mac-heres-how-to-reset-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Trouble Finding Files on Your Mac? Here\u2019s How to Reset Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the most part, Spotlight works well. Press Command-Space or use the Search field in a Finder window, and it finds everything that matches your search term. Sometimes, however, Spotlight fails to turn up a file that you know is present, likely due to index corruption. To fix the problem, you can force Spotlight to rebuild its index. (Don\u2019t do this unless it\u2019s necessary since reindexing can take a long time and may impact the performance of your Mac while it\u2019s happening.) Open System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy, and then drag your drive (or the drive on which Spotlight isn\u2019t finding files) into the list of locations that Spotlight shouldn\u2019t search. That deletes the old Spotlight index. Still working in the Spotlight Privacy list, select the drive and click the \u2013 button below the list. Spotlight now reindexes the contents of the drive and should find your files properly in the future.<\/p>\n

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For the most part, Spotlight works well. Press Command-Space or use the Search field in a Finder window, and it finds everything that matches your search term. Sometimes, however, Spotlight fails to turn up a file that you know is present, likely due to index corruption. To fix the problem, you can force Spotlight to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185],"tags":[3385],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}