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Spotlight wont work? Fix a broken Spotlight menu with these troubleshooting tips
Feb 15, 2007 - 82 Comments

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Spotlight is probably the greatest feature to hit the Mac OS in years, once you get used to using it, going to a PC without it feels hopelessly inadequate. I use Spotlight for everything from launching applications, retrieving pictures, searching for old emails, literally just about everything. If you arent using Spotlight, youre missing out. If you are using Spotlight, every now and again, the Spotlight menu mysteriously stops working (apparently this is more common since the 10.4.8 update), and were going to give you a few methods to troubleshoot Spotlight and get it back in full working order.

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The Problems: Spotlight wont work

There are several incarnations of Spotlight problems that I have personally run into, they are: Problem #1) Spotlight menu icon highlights, but no search form appears Problem #2) Spotlight search form appears, but no results are shown Problem #3) Spotlight search works, but results are poor and incomplete While not entirely sure what causes any of these problems, try these troubleshooting methods that frequently work to repair Spotlight:

The Solutions: Troubleshooting Spotlight

Solution #1: Kill SystemUIServer Launch Activity Monitor (located in /Applications/Utilities/) Locate the process SystemUIServer, highlight it, and click the red button Quit Process Within a few seconds the menubar will rebuild itself and often Spotlight will magically work Solution #2: Rebuild the Spotlight Index manually Launch Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/) At the command prompt, type this exactly: sudo mdutil -E / You will be asked for your password, provide it, as this command requires administrator privelages to run You will receive a confirmation message saying that index will be rebuilt Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc. Note: You can also rebuild the Spotlight index with MainMenu, mentioned in Solution #4 Solution #3: Change Desktop Resolution This is a strange fix but it works everytime for me when my Spotlight menu icon highlights but the search form doesnt appear Open System Preferences via the Apple Menu Click Displays and select a resolution smaller than what you are currently using, 640!480 seems to always work Select your native resolution again, changing your screen resolution back to normal The Spotlight search tray will magically become available again Solution #4: Clear caches and preferences Clear caches and preferences relating to Spotlight, this is best done through either the free tool OnyX, or the free tool MainMenu, we recommend MainMenu because its easier for novices Download MainMenu here Download OnyX here Install MainMenu a little Hammer and Wrench icon will appear in your menubar navigate down to Cleaning and clean out User Cache, System Cache, and Font Caches Note: Some users discover that just cleaning the Font caches is adequate to repair a screwy Spotlight, but it wont hurt to clear them all Solution #5: Reboot your Mac

This should almost be listed as #1 just because sometimes a simple reboot will fix Spotlight, but if I can avoid a reboot I will, and often, a reboot isnt good enough What do MDS and MDWorker have to do with Spotlight? The MDS process and mdworker processes usually run concurrently on your Mac when Spotlight is indexing your Mac. Let the processes finish running to complete a relevant search index of your Mac filesystem. Hopefully that covers it, and Spotlight should be working good as new again. If we missed something, feel free to contribute in the comments below. Happy Spotlighting!

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Posted by: OSXDaily in How to, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

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Mike says:
March 2, 2007 at 12:50 pm

I have the problem that spotlight is simply not searching, and is not finding anything. It was working up until a couple of days ago, I cannot isolate what I have done differently. Possibly I installed a firmware update, would this cause the problem? I already rebuilt the index once and I am rebuilding it again. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mike
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Alan says:
November 5, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Fixed the problem thanks!

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Mike says:
March 2, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Never mindIt seems that trying various combinations of these methods fixed the problem. Thanks Mike
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J says:
March 6, 2007 at 9:45 pm

At work, I use Windows Desktop Search (WDS) constantly. I cant imagine working without it. However, since Ive purchased my MacBook Pro Ive had continuous problems with Spotlight so shy away from it. It constantly hangs or freezes or cannot find what Im looking for. Ive never had a problem with WDS (or had to rebuild it). No offense to anyone but I wish my experience with Spotlight was as good or even better than WDS. Thanks for the tip as I will probably have to use it alot for Spotlight to work decently.
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J says:
March 15, 2007 at 11:23 am

Actually, Ill have to retract that last comment I left. I found out what was bugging my Spotlight through one of these methods above (not sure which one), and I agree: nothing can touch this function. Spotlight is amazing! My entire Mac is working better. Im wondering if it was a corrupted font, because I got lost

is amazing! My entire Mac is working better. Im wondering if it was a corrupted font, because I got lost in repairing and ended up running some font software that found a bunch of bad fonts. So anyway, yeah. Spotlight works better than WDS after all. Go figure.
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sam says:
March 15, 2007 at 4:53 pm

hey there, i tried EVERYTHING, spotlight still wont work

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seafrog says:
March 19, 2007 at 4:52 pm

SystemUIServer did not work for me but changing the display resolution helped. Thanks for the information post.
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Jakob says:
May 20, 2007 at 2:59 am

Thank you so muck for the tip. Solution #1 did it for me!
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miso says:
June 30, 2007 at 5:04 pm

ive try all 5 and still it does not work, Im actually getting fed you with apple, for every good thing that I discover there is another one thats annoying. Why wouldnt the damn thing just work.
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Lonn says:
July 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm

Thanks, I have trying to fix this for weeks with out success. No. 1 did it! thanks Lonn
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James says:
August 7, 2007 at 11:43 am

Only #3 worked for me. So strange!

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Jason says:
August 24, 2007 at 10:11 am

just wanted to say thanks the 1st option worked first time.
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August 24, 2007 at 6:51 pm

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Fred says:
September 7, 2007 at 2:34 pm

My 3 year old did something to the home computer and Spotlight has been dead ever since. #1 worked immediately! THANK YOU!
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WowThanks says:
November 27, 2007 at 1:35 pm

WOW this worked instantly, thanks so much

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guest says:
November 30, 2007 at 7:52 am

spotlight (i.e. the magnifying glass) has vanished from my menu bar a while ago. sofar nothing has helped to get that little loupe back into the menu bar.

helped to get that little loupe back into the menu bar. neither have i found a simple way of reinstalling spotlight (since i wouldnt want to reinstall os x upt to 10.4.11 all over again). tx in advance for any suggestions!
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yeago works Blog Archive Easy Fix For OS X Spotlight / Finder Problems says:
December 1, 2007 at 12:31 pm

[...] This page suggests rebuilding it with the following command: sudo mdutil -E / [...]
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Yeago says:
December 1, 2007 at 12:34 pm

Thanks for these tips, however, they werent able to solve my problem. I just opted for turning off indexing in OS X. See: http://yeago.net/works/easy-fix-for-os-x-spotlight-finder-problems
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HMCIV says:
December 6, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Also if you Spotlight magnifying glass fails to appear in the upper right hand corner of your mac, try repairing your permissions via Disk Utility. If you installed something recently (especially that isnt yet leopard compatible), that may be the culprit.
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ejv says:
December 13, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Well, I run Leopard on a new powerbook and Spotlight does not work at all. I have tried all the suggestions above, but the only files Spotlight returns are Entourage files. Which is totally useless for me. In 10.4, Spotlight seemed to work much better. Its really frustrating to not be able to find anything now.
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Rory says:
December 30, 2007 at 5:15 am

Solution 1 fixed the problem that I had in seconds. Thank you

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lil c says:
December 30, 2007 at 10:57 pm

my spotlight still wont work just bought the laptop when i click on anything like itunes, and all the programs on the menu it says my spotlight is installed incorrectly when i try reinstalling with my mac disk it says the same thing. no matter what i do it says mt spotlight is corrupted
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printerguy says:
January 7, 2008 at 7:49 am

on my IMAC 2ghz, 1gig ram, last years model, I cant get spotlight to work yet. Ive reinstalled Leopard 2 times, last time complete clean install, still dont work. Ive done all the above tries still dont work. Even used macpilot, that didnt work. I cant find another thing to try on the internet, exhausted all efforts. HELP!!!!! I updated my MacBook Pro 15! 2.33 ghz, everything worked great.
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printerguy says:
January 7, 2008 at 7:49 am

on my IMAC 2ghz, 1gig ram, last years model, I cant get spotlight to work yet. Ive reinstalled Leopard 2 times, last time complete clean install, still dont work. Ive done all the above tries still dont work. Even used macpilot, that didnt work. I cant find another thing to try on the internet, exhausted all efforts. HELP!!!!! I updated my MacBook Pro 15! 2.33 ghz, everything worked great.
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Amber says:
January 10, 2008 at 1:15 pm

I followed solution 2 but the sudo command didnt rebuild the index it turned searching and indexing

I followed solution 2 but the sudo command didnt rebuild the index it turned searching and indexing off and i have no idea how to turn it back on again.
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Marwan from Damascus says:

January 28, 2008 at 10:01 am

Thanks for the tips! Solution #1 solved the problem I wish the apple website were as efficient as osxdaily.com
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ken says:
March 7, 2008 at 4:39 pm

I have a fresh install of 10.5, and Spotlight has never worked, though it worked fine on 10.4. mdutil showed that indexing/searching is disabled for my hard disk. After poking around in the control panel, I discovered that in the Privacy tab, it has Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations: Mac HD. I guess thats the new default in 10.5. Weird. Youd think it would at least say that in the Spotlight menu. After its enabled, the Spotlight menu does say that its busy indexing, and even shows a little progress bar.
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Patrick Kinsella says:

April 1, 2008 at 6:52 pm

These great hints wont work if Spotlight is completely disabled (which some people have tried and dont know how to reverse). If all else fails, follow this procedure: Make hidden files visible (copy and paste the next line into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES Now in (previously hidden) /etc folder in your root/hard drive, find hostconfig, and open it with any text editor. Does it include this line: SPOTLIGHT=-YES(note the two dashes astride YES)? If not, type this line at the bottom. Save the file as hostconfig in your root folder (etc folder wont accept it from a text editor). Now drag and drop this new hostconfig to /etc. This requires your admin password to replace the existing hostconfig. Reboot, and your spotlight is working. This may be a long way around, but it worked for me. Now make invisibles invisible again with this line in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool NO To fire up Spotlight, you may need to type this into Terminal: sudo mdutil -i on / (the slash is important) If Mail is still not searching inside Entire Message, type this into Terminal to index your old messages: sudo mdimport /users/YOURNAME/library/mail [or whatever the path to your mailbox message folders. Took me hours to piece this together from various forums, so I hope the next person who breaks Spotlight can find it fast. Patrick
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Ian Johnston says:

September 15, 2011 at 1:54 am

Patrick thank you very much for your input here. None of the fixes in the article worked for me until I read your reply and tried the simple (at least its simple when you know about it!!) act of turning indexing on in Terminal. No idea how it got switched off in the first place, but all now working thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Ian
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Patrick Kinsella says:

April 1, 2008 at 6:52 pm

These great hints wont work if Spotlight is completely disabled (which some people have tried and dont know how to reverse). If all else fails, follow this procedure: Make hidden files visible (copy and paste the next line into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES Now in (previously hidden) /etc folder in your root/hard drive, find hostconfig, and open it with any text editor. Does it include this line: SPOTLIGHT=-YES(note the two dashes astride YES)? If not, type this line at the bottom. Save the file as hostconfig in your root folder (etc folder wont accept it from a text editor). Now drag and drop this new hostconfig to /etc. This requires your admin password to replace the existing hostconfig. Reboot, and your spotlight is working. This may be a long way around, but it worked for me. Now make invisibles invisible again with this line in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool NO

To fire up Spotlight, you may need to type this into Terminal: sudo mdutil -i on / (the slash is important) If Mail is still not searching inside Entire Message, type this into Terminal to index your old messages: sudo mdimport /users/YOURNAME/library/mail [or whatever the path to your mailbox message folders. Took me hours to piece this together from various forums, so I hope the next person who breaks Spotlight can find it fast. Patrick
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Patrick Kinsella says:

April 1, 2008 at 7:03 pm

Sorry: you need to know that the visible/invisible switch works only after a relaunch of Finder (via Command-Alt-Esc). Enjoy. Patrick
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Patrick Kinsella says:

April 1, 2008 at 7:03 pm

Sorry: you need to know that the visible/invisible switch works only after a relaunch of Finder (via Command-Alt-Esc). Enjoy. Patrick
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t says:
April 5, 2008 at 10:19 am

Spotlight is not indexing the text INSIDE my .ppt files (for Office 08). It is only indexing the filename. I run Tiger, 10.4.11, Intel (core 2 duo) MBP. It also would not index with Office 04 but I just learned that it indexes for other people and not me. So I put the main HD in privacy not to index and then took it out again. The blue thing came up after restart it said it was going to take 2+ hours, but then it ended in like 30 minutes. However, not everything was indexed. Ive been checking activity monitor and mdimporter is working (not very quickly) but slowly in the background and appears to ever so slowly be indexing files. 14+ hours later, it is still not done indexing, and the .ppt that are currently showing up in spotlight searches are only searchable by the file name. Any insight you have would be great.
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Anon says:
April 6, 2008 at 1:55 pm

the resetting of the screen resolution worked for me! thanks

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Allison says:
May 21, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Wow, great suggestions! MainMenu helped a lot. However, I still have this problem: When I search for a file that I know is on my system (as a test), it never shows up when I search the whole Mac only when I am searching in sub-directories closer to the files location. Ive made sure the Privacy setting is not excluding Mac HD and have tried everything else on this forum. I feel like I must be missing some very basic thing, because Spotlight is working in the details its just this BIG thing thats not right. Help!
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Big Tex says:

June 19, 2008 at 2:22 pm

I used technique number 3, but I get the message: Error, no index found for this volume. NOW what?
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David Tree says:

September 20, 2008 at 4:25 am

Thanks very much. I had problem 1, now solved, 15 seconds to fix!! Brilliant.
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happy! says:

happy! says:
February 11, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Solution #4 did the trick for me!

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james says:
March 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm

I had my MBAir HD replaced this week (for free!). I have time capsule, so I plugged it to the MBAir and loaded everything..except my Spotlight. It was the one and only thing that did not work after I loaded the backup. I tried reboot first, did not solve it. Tried the sudo command and it did it for me. I have had the Air for a year and never had a Spotlight issue before. I cant live without spotlight. I love using it LIVE while giving presentations to large audiences on BiG screens. You hear people going Wao! and then people come see me after the presentation. Not for the related subject matter, but for the Mac. Draws attention and crowds.
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BP says:
April 13, 2009 at 10:25 am

Solution #1 Worked for me. But had to click Force Quit button rather than just regular Quit button as just selecting Quit did not fix the problem. Force Quit provided an instant fix. (PS: Youll have to quit/restart Activity Monitor to see SystemUIServer in the list again.)
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ilahi says:
April 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

thank you for see

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Lee Calcote says:

May 29, 2009 at 6:59 am

J, have you used Google Desktop Search? I think it beats WDS hands-down.
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Jim Strutton says:

June 19, 2009 at 7:14 am

Nothing seems to work for me. On the last suggestion, I received: Error: unable to perform operation. (-1) No index.
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J says:
July 9, 2009 at 12:21 am

I tried solution 3, the strange fix, and it totally worked. I dont know what caused it but symptom #1(Spotlight menu icon highlights, but no search form appears) has occured to me a few times. The first time it happened I googled online and followed the instruction to rewrite some syntax in the terminal (different from the codes given in solution 2 above though). Im so glad that i ran into your site today, to me its a much easier fix to remember than a bunch of codes Thank you so much~
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George says:
July 18, 2009 at 3:19 am

Comment from Patrick Kinsella Time: April 1, 2008, 7:03 pm QUOTE Sorry: you need to know that the visible/invisible switch works only after a relaunch of Finder (via Command-Alt-Esc). Enjoy. Patrick Patrick thanks ever so much couldnt get it to work until I followed your instructionsnice one!!! George
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kibuyu says:
August 10, 2009 at 5:42 am

August 10, 2009 at 5:42 am

Megathanx! Solution #1 didnt work for me but #2 fixed it.

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Martin says:
September 2, 2009 at 8:53 am

After upgrading to snow leopard spotlight was broken. I removed the istat menu app (http://www.islayer.com), and 10 seconds later spotlight works again. Hope this helps. Martin
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John Solaperto says:

September 14, 2009 at 8:44 am

Solution #1 did it for me. Thanks!

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September 19, 2009 at 6:43 am

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spambot says:
October 21, 2009 at 3:17 am

SystemUIServer is not showing at all in activity monitor for me, and NO search functions are working, not just spotlight. aaaaaaaargh
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spambot says:
October 21, 2009 at 3:21 am

and tip 2 gives error no index found for volume

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Thomas says:
November 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Wow, #1 did it for me. Incredible. I hope I dont have to do this all the time (Spotlight has been broken for me a long time even though I reboot every day, so I dont think killing that process just once will fix it forever).
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alapdia says:
November 9, 2009 at 10:36 am

I would like to spam you but i am not good at ait

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TubeUil says:
November 25, 2009 at 6:42 am

thanks a lot, no 1 worked like a charm! Glad you shared that knowledge.
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Betty McGuinness says:

November 26, 2009 at 9:44 pm

THANK YOU!!!
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Googligoo says:
December 10, 2009 at 7:10 am

Thanks much!

Thanks much!
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clarissa says:
January 8, 2010 at 4:41 am

I tell you if MM will help- So far thanks in ad.

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tom says:
January 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm

solution 3 worked like a charm!

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Mac says:
February 10, 2010 at 12:30 pm

My problem is that the indexing never finishes (57 hours estimated time!!). The problem arose when I swapped out the HDD for a new model and used time machine to restore. Worked a charm apart from spotlight. I have used all the tips above, repaired permissions but no joy. When I repair disk I was getting a lot of ACL issues but according to apple I can ignore these BUT I still got rid of them using ACLr8 but still no improvement. I am at my wits end!!
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iphonermac says:
February 24, 2010 at 7:14 am

Never mindIt seems that trying various combinations of these methods fixed the problem. Thanks
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Jacob Palmd says:

March 8, 2010 at 8:16 pm

Des the command sudo mdutil -E / get Spotlight to work on all volumes when I have my hard disk partititioned into multiple volumes? Or should I ad an * somewhere to get the command to redo the Spotligt index on all volumes?
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Jacob Palme says:

March 8, 2010 at 8:37 pm

Has anyone seen this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1210676 It is a way of reindexing spoltlight without having to use Terminal
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scott rosiere says:

April 2, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Thanks for great advice 1-3 didnt work for me but 4 worked perfect..Many Thanks for your advice!
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tigertails says:
April 8, 2010 at 10:05 pm

note: after all sorts of problems (years of it running okay, but breaking & failing in the past week, and trying to find the culprit through all sorts of attempts, sys-arch-reinstall, breaking again, I now believe that eventually ifreemem breaks spotlight in 10.4.11 (Tiger on ppc imac) and I have no idea how to resurrect/fix the problem. assistance/help would be appreciated. thanks
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MichaelMays says:
August 4, 2010 at 8:23 pm

Thank You!! #4 worked!!!! I am so grateful! I had been doing without spotlight for 6 months! Wish I had seen this page then Thanks again!!!!!!
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September 24, 2010 at 7:00 pm

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Nick Danger says:

October 10, 2010 at 9:05 am

Thanks! # 2 worked perfectly.

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watches says:
October 24, 2010 at 11:22 pm

gr8 resrch bro

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matt says:
October 28, 2010 at 7:42 am

aweseom, number two did the trick, thanks. *bookmarked

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Bruce says:
November 5, 2010 at 11:22 am

All of a sudden, spotlight and finder search stopped working shortly after upgrading to leopard. Also added Things & Notebook so not sure which, if any, caused conflict. Tried all of the above suggestions and none worked. However, found this on a different page and it worked for me. In Terminal (applications>utilities>terminal) Make sure spotlight is enabled. 2 things to do: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig Make sure you have SPOTLIGHT=-YES- in there..and not SPOTLIGHT=-NOthen sudo mdutil -i on / That did it for me (I did have spotlight=yes, but the second one needed to be done.I have no idea what might have turned spotlight off to begin with).
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AA says:
November 23, 2010 at 2:26 pm

HELP! THE ICON DISSAPERED!

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Jamal says:
February 18, 2011 at 6:41 pm

Great details, fixed my Spotlight Keep up the good work

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Holly says:
May 1, 2011 at 11:41 am

Solution #1 worked for a day, then Spotlight stopped working again. So, I tried #2 but instead of rebuilding the index it now tells me Indexing and searching disabled. Now what do I do?
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Adam says:
May 5, 2011 at 2:23 am

Im pretty sure #2 is the one for me, but when I type in the command it says Indexing and searching disabled and then doesnt begin to index. What do I do??
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Allan says:
July 14, 2011 at 9:48 am

Thank you Bruce! Executing sudo mdutil -E / responded with No index. But your solution to enable indexing worked! To summarize, in Terminal execute: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig (Make sure you have SPOTLIGHT=-YES- in there..and not SPOTLIGHT=-NO- ) then to turn on indexing: sudo mdutil -i on / (it replied: Indexing enabled) Then when I check Spotlight, I can see that it has begun indexing.

Then when I check Spotlight, I can see that it has begun indexing.
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James Ludtke says:

November 26, 2011 at 10:09 pm

Off and on, I have been spending hours and hours over the last year to get Spotlight to work properly. Spotlight seamed to work, but produced search results which were ludicrous. Re-indexing, cache clearing, deleting pref file, deleting index files, turning Spotlight off and on, nothing made a difference. When I did a sudo nano /etc/hostconfig, I found there was no entry for SPOTLIGHT at all. I entered SPOTLIGHT=-YES- and saved. Problem gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Fiona says:
August 23, 2011 at 8:56 am

Ive tried #Solution 4 and downloaded Main Menu. I followed the instructions and not my computer plays the reboots chord, brings up the Apple Logo (but no little wheel-of-death), holds on for ten minutes or so then fades to black, and restarts the whole process this is a disaster
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Bernard Francois says:

September 13, 2011 at 7:03 am

My spotlight got stuck while searching, showing a spinning beach ball of death while hovering the menu. The first solution (ending the SystemUIServer using the Activity Monitor tool) did the job. Thanks!
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Ian Johnston says:

September 15, 2011 at 1:55 am

Patrick thank you very much for your input here. None of the fixes in the article worked for me until I read your reply and tried the simple (at least its simple when you know about it!!) act of turning indexing on in Terminal. No idea how it got switched off in the first place, but all now working thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Ian
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gosling says:
November 21, 2011 at 5:22 am

thanks a lot
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