Spotlight does NOT work - tried EVERYTHING

Running older Intel Mac Pro... Mountain Lion
Spotlight just stopped working - it returns nothing but webpage suggestions.
There are NO disks added under the Spotlight System Preferences.
Trying to add and then remove only results in the "Privacy List Error The item couldn't be addred because you don't have the appropriate permissions.
I've rebuilt permissions. No go.
I've killed SystemUIServer in Activities Monitor - nada.
I've used the info here on How to Disable (or Enable) Spotlight in Mac OS X Lion which includes the terminal commands for killing Spotlight, restarting again, and forcing reindexing. Nothing. Well almost nothing- I got it to re-index for a bit last night... But when you use Spotlight.... nothing.
I have an ugly suspicion it has to do with perceived ownership of the disks by the OS - anyone care to take me up on this? Here's why:
I you reveal the hidden files you see this:
When I "Get Info" (Command-I) I see these permissions... the disk first, and then the .Spotlight-V100 folder:
So why does the .Spotlight-V100 say that everyone has "No Access"? But looking at my Mac Mini these settings seem to be correct.
I tried changing ownership on the everyone to "Read" (which didn't work everytime I tried until I started writing this of course) but it just returns the same Privacy Access error when you try to add the disk to the Spotlight Preferences Privacy list again. I tried changing it to Read & Write... same thing.
Now inside the Spotlight-V100 folder is the VolumeConfiguration.plist file - I'm wondering if something in these preferences (which you can read unless you change the setting to "Read" where it is first set 'everyone' as 'no access') might give a clue - so here is the content of that file and I'll leave this for now to see if anyone has any clue what's going on here. Thanks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>Annotations</key>
          <dict>
                    <key>Creation_Predicates</key>
                    <dict>
                              <key>false</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>fstype.hfs</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>interconnect.sata</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>is.alreadyindexed</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.automount</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.backupstore</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.backupvolume</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.bootablevolume</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>is.cameramedia</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.diskimage</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.dontbrowse</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.ejectable</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.external</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.externalvolumes.defaultoff</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.externalvolumes.ignore</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.filevault</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.forcedefaultindex</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.forcefsonly</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.home</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.internal</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>is.ipod</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.local</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>is.lowdiskspace</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.mirrored.idisk</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.mobilebackups</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.network</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.quarantined</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.readonly</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.removable</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.rootfs</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>is.safeboot</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.syntheticmount</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.tinyvolume</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.windowsbootablevolume</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>is.xsan</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>policy.location.volume</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>self.appleinternal</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>self.server</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>status.neverindex</key>
                              <false/>
                              <key>supports.catsearch</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>supports.fileids</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>supports.volfs</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>true</key>
                              <true/>
                              <key>uuid.b449cee2-6ad5-3b8a-a749-9e6d14c278b1</key>
                              <true/>
                    </dict>
                    <key>DefaultStore_EffectiveSearch</key>
                    <integer>3</integer>
                    <key>DefaultStore_RequestedSearch</key>
                    <integer>3</integer>
          </dict>
          <key>ConfigurationCreationDate</key>
          <date>2013-02-15T00:07:09Z</date>
          <key>ConfigurationCreationVersion</key>
          <string>Version 10.8.2 (Build 12C60)</string>
          <key>ConfigurationModificationDate</key>
          <date>2013-02-15T00:07:09Z</date>
          <key>ConfigurationModificationVersion</key>
          <string>Version 10.8.2 (Build 12C60)</string>
          <key>Exclusions</key>
          <array/>
          <key>Options</key>
          <dict>
                    <key>ConfigurationType</key>
                    <string>Default</string>
          </dict>
          <key>Stores</key>
          <dict>
                    <key>7577F89E-857D-4CB6-B9D0-E937F1944380</key>
                    <dict>
                              <key>CreationDate</key>
                              <date>2013-02-15T00:07:09Z</date>
                              <key>CreationVersion</key>
                              <string>Version 10.8.2 (Build 12C60)</string>
                              <key>IndexVersion</key>
                              <integer>95</integer>
                              <key>PartialPath</key>
                              <string>/</string>
                              <key>PolicyDate</key>
                              <date>2013-02-15T00:07:09Z</date>
                              <key>PolicyLevel</key>
                              <string>kMDConfigSearchLevelReadWrite</string>
                              <key>PolicyVersion</key>
                              <string>Version 10.8.2 (Build 12C60)</string>
                    </dict>
          </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Hi Linc,
Thanks for picking up my thread and offering your insights.
Going to Console and filtering for mdworker reveals no entries what so ever. I recognize mdworker as one of the key components of Spotlight so suggests it's not running. I also see that Console is posting repeated crashes for for
LaunchServices/5123589
here's the full entry:
2/15/13 8:28:20.942 PM ReportCrash[637]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
2/15/13 8:28:20.942 PM ReportCrash[637]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
2/15/13 8:28:20.998 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds[640]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
2/15/13 8:28:20.998 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/15/13 8:28:21.107 PM ReportCrash[637]: Saved crash report for mds[640] version 707.3 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2013-02-15-202821_COMPUTER_NAME.crash
this certainly appears also to be Spotlight because running this in Terminal...
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
and the crash reports stop. Run this to reload Spotlight...
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
and the errors start again.
This is the crash report noted above - pretty sure this is what you want now - I see no mdsworker but mds errors all through...
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Process:         mds [640]
Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
Identifier:      mds
Version:         707.3
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
User ID:         0
Date/Time:       2013-02-15 20:28:20.498 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Crashed Thread: 9 Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd02500ac00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000008
VM Regions Near 0x8:
-->
    __TEXT                 000000010514c000-000000010526c000 [ 1152K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
Application Specific Information:
[0x105b70000](Error) IndexGeneral in ssize_t fd_pread(fd_ptr, void *, size_t, off_t):pread(-1 , o:0, s:0) err:2
[0x105b70000](Error) IndexCI in _Bool store_stream_init(store_stream_t *, fd_ptr, _Bool):store_stream_init err:2
[0x105b70000](Warning) IndexStore in int db_restore_dirty_chunk_info(int, db_dirty_chunk_info *):Restore error: 2, recovering from shadow
[0x105b70000](Error) IndexState in int _SIOpenIndexFilesWithState(SIRef, uint32_t, _Bool, _Bool, _Bool, _Bool *, DocID *, CIDocCounts *):ContentInde
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86abe686 mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86abdc42 mach_msg + 70
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff84b22803 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 195
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff84b27ee6 __CFRunLoopRun + 1078
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff84b276b2 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 290
5   mds                                     0x000000010515aa54 0x10514c000 + 59988
6   libdyld.dylib                           0x00007fff8a4327e1 start + 1
Thread 1:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0d16 kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81ddea _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 883
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81d9ee _dispatch_mgr_thread + 54
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 4:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd026826400 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0ae6 fsync + 10
1   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010537b38b fd_sync + 381
2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a71d8 _CIMetaInfoSync + 157
3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a73ad CIMetaInfoCreate + 377
4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052dfbaa SICreateNewIndex + 1106
5   mds                                     0x0000000105182318 0x10514c000 + 221976
6   mds                                     0x0000000105181a7a 0x10514c000 + 219770
7   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
8   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
9   mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
10 mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
11 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
12 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
13 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
14 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
15 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
16 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 5:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 6:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 7:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0ffa read + 10
1   mds                                     0x0000000105155ced 0x10514c000 + 40173
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85027742 _pthread_start + 327
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014181 thread_start + 13
Thread 8:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 9 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd02500ac00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
0   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052ecffc SISetTransactionCount + 212
1   mds                                     0x00000001051f951f 0x10514c000 + 709919
2   mds                                     0x00000001051fa08f 0x10514c000 + 712847
3   mds                                     0x0000000105172b82 0x10514c000 + 158594
4   mds                                     0x0000000105181eb1 0x10514c000 + 220849
5   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
6   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
7   mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
8   mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
9   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
10 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
11 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
12 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
13 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
14 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 10:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd026820400 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86abfb26 __fcntl + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86abf0cb fcntl + 232
2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010537b303 fd_sync + 245
3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001054164f7 dirty_datastore_locked + 263
4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010541e025 add_dirty_chunk + 195
5   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x0000000105417b48 page_alloc + 290
6   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x0000000105417987 db2_store_obj + 325
7   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052d730d si_create_indexmetadata + 213
8   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e5933 SIInitIndex + 15244
9   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e0bc2 SICreateNewIndex + 5226
10 mds                                     0x0000000105182318 0x10514c000 + 221976
11 mds                                     0x0000000105181a7a 0x10514c000 + 219770
12 mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
13 mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
14 mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
15 mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
16 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
17 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
18 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
19 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
20 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
21 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 11:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd027807a00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0fbe pwrite + 10
1   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a6f02 _copyFile + 981
2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a70f4 copyFile + 12
3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010541213d db2_update_datastore_state + 163
4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052dde36 _SIOpenIndex + 3670
5   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e0ea8 SIOpenIndex + 282
6   mds                                     0x0000000105182396 0x10514c000 + 222102
7   mds                                     0x0000000105181854 0x10514c000 + 219220
8   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
9   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
10 mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
11 mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
12 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
13 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
14 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
15 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
16 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
17 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 12:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 13:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd02300ee00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0fbe pwrite + 10
1   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a6f02 _copyFile + 981
2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a70f4 copyFile + 12
3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010541213d db2_update_datastore_state + 163
4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052dde36 _SIOpenIndex + 3670
5   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e0ea8 SIOpenIndex + 282
6   mds                                     0x0000000105182396 0x10514c000 + 222102
7   mds                                     0x0000000105181854 0x10514c000 + 219220
8   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
9   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
10 mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
11 mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
12 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
13 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
14 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
15 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
16 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
17 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 14:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 15:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 16:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 9 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x00000000ffffffff rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000000000082
rdi: 0x00007fd022829e00 rsi: 0x0000000000000001 rbp: 0x0000000105b6dfd0 rsp: 0x0000000105b6df50
   r8: 0x0000000000000024   r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x00000001054b2ae8 r11: 0x00000001052ecf28
r12: 0x0000000000000100 r13: 0x0000000000000001 r14: 0x00007fd022829e00 r15: 0x00007fd022848c00
rip: 0x00000001052ecffc rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x0000000000000008
Logical CPU: 0
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 1
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 308
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=147.5M resident=115.1M(78%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=32.4M(22%)
Writable regions: Total=174.9M written=6084K(3%) resident=7420K(4%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=167.7M(96%)
REGION TYPE                      VIRTUAL
===========                      =======
MALLOC                            127.8M
MALLOC guard page                    80K
Memory tag=241                      136K
Memory tag=243 (reserved)          30.0M        reserved VM address space (unallocated)
Memory tag=244                      320K
STACK GUARD                        56.1M
Stack                              16.1M
VM_ALLOCATE                           8K
__DATA                             12.1M
__IMAGE                             528K
__LINKEDIT                         53.7M
__TEXT                             93.8M
__UNICODE                           544K
mapped file                        18.6M
shared memory                       308K
===========                      =======
TOTAL                             410.1M
TOTAL, minus reserved VM space    380.1M

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5. What files are left in this folder?
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
6. If there are files left, delete the Flash folder.
7. Install the Flash Player from here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
8. Test the Flash Player here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
If the Flash Player did not install properly, there may be a
permissions issue within your Windows Registry. Please login as the
Administrator (NOT a User with Admin privileges) and follow these
instructions to open the registry.
Warning: The following solution involves the Windows System
Registry. Editing or manipulating the registry incorrectly can
result in serious system damage which may require re-installation
of the operating system. If you are not comfortable editing the
registry, then take your system to a professional. If you choose to
proceed, then it is essential that you create a complete system
backup and a Windows System Restore Point before proceeding. Adobe
Systems cannot be held responsible for damage resulting from this
information.
1. Select Start > Run
2. Type in “regedit”
3. Right click on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
4. Select Permissions
5. Select Advanced
Compare your permissions with the ones in this screenshot.
Reply with any differences that you see.
http://www.supportflash.com/vista_key.png
Please do not use Microsoft’s SubInACL took unless you
know for sure that the system registry permissions is the issue.
SubInACL has been used on Vista successfully, but if you need to
find out more information, like is it officially supported on
Vista, please contact Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e39 27b&displaylang=en

Trackpad two finger scroll, zoom and rotation does not work, tried everything

After I updated to lion my trackpad zoom, scroll and rotation feautres won´t work. I´ve tried tip I could find ( restarting, updating to mavericks, enabling them in system preferences, using terminal ect)
I made an guest account as well, the features work there, but not on my main account and it´s starting to annoy me. Please help
I have a macbook pro from 2010
2,4 GHz intel core 2 du
4gb 1067 mhz ddr3
os x 10.9.1

Try to reset the PRAM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222
If that doesn't do it, reset the SMC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

ICloud for pc not working tried everything

iCloud for pc not working tried everything ( uninstall - reinstall - delete files - old versions ) nothing helps it just downloads a couple of photos and off again my iPhone uploads perfectly as all the pics goes to the iPad seamlessly, Please Help i'm on windows 8.1 x64, Thanks

I think that the card reader may in fact be defective, but it just doesn't make sense if I have already used it fine before. I've tried everything on this Apple support page, thank you though.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight- does not work

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
2,6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
OS Yosemite,
Finder versión 10.10.1
Mail Versión 8.1 (1993)
In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight… does not work. Messages or documents with the search criteria are there and one could find them manually, but the search function fails to find them. Following advice from Apple Support (728965377):
1. I applied an Apple protocol for adware removal (Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac); I had none, because I had formally utilized a similar protocol that I had found in Internet, actually an app that implemented automatically Apple's adware removal protocol.
2. I rebuild the post boxes in Mail (Mail (Yosemite): Reconstruir buzones); It took a while but it functioned properly
3. I re-install the System (OS X Yosemite: Reinstalar OS X); It took about 4 hours but there was no problem whatsoever with the installation.
Afterwards I searched for messages in Mail, and documents in Finder and Spotlight, without any difficulty. The search function in all of them was working properly. But the next time that I needed to search messages or documents, an hour later or so, the problem reappear and a couple of new issues occurred:
1. in app RagTime 6.5.2 (Build 1821), www.ragtime.de, the menu bar disappears (it is invisible), when one performs certain operations, e. g., calculating a value with a formula, whether it is in a spreadsheet or some other component (text, drawing, etc.). After touching with the cursor the menu bar is visible again.
2. after reading an e-mail in Mail or copying an address, this is seeing as a floating object in the finder and over every application. There is no logical way to get rid of the floating object and neither copying or deleting or cutting it. It is not a big issue but nonetheless bothersome.
3. In Mail, messages with Flag or in VIP contacts cannot be seen in the appropriate folders, only in the Incoming mail folder, together with other messages. It seems to me, this issue is part of same search function problem.
4. The preview function within Mail does not show the attached documents to a message, whether it is in the IN, OUT or Draft boxes.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try again to re-index Spotlight. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name or email address, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Spotlight does not work with my Lacie d2 drive connected.

I, like many others, have been struggling with the case of Spotlight shannigans for some time since it stopped working smoothly on the release of 10.4.8, I think. Anyway no amount of privacy setting, re-indexing, SystemUI force quitting or crying seemed ti fix the problem. Then - in a trial and error experiment the likes of which I had never undertaken before - I found the culprit. Spotlight does not work when my Lacie d2 Extreme 200GB is connected. No matter if it is connected by USB, Firewire or Daisychained - as soon as the computer sees it is plugged in - Spotlight (and all other search functions) dies.
Thinking it was simply a case of fixing something on the drive, I updated the firmware, completely deleted and repaired the disk and thought it would start afresh. Unfortunately this was not the case - so now I have to decide between having Spotlight working, or having my external drive connected.
Does anyone have any ideas at all of what else I could try to do?

Hi there - I've reformatted it twice, once as OSX Extended, and Once as OSX Extended Journalled. Neither really made much difference. As a quick work around, I managed to add it to the privacy list before the computer had a chance to index it - so far so good, but I can't search the drive. Better that than the alternative though! The only other weird thing was it did work straight out of the box with no problems for almost 3 years - it was just the move to the New iMac and an update or two that started the snafu.

Spotlight does not work with Thunderbird? mdimporter installed but no work

Hello,
additional to my Apple-Mail i still use Thunderbird for my old PC-Accounts and the old mails.
Thunderbird runs quite well, but the Mac-OS Spotlight does not find anything within the Mails stored in Thunderbird.
The mdimporter from Mozilla is installed,
I made reboots, re-Index, Double-Clicks, added the thunderbird-Folder to the private and removed again and everything else i could find anywhere.
Nothing works.
Anybody here who might give me a useful hint?
Kind regards
Falk

ok this is some extra piece of software which seems to create a separate index for Thunderbird emails outside of the database files which can then be searched by spotlight. I don't use it so can't comment on this directly. one obvious thing is that you'd have to include system files in your search before you see any results from the thunderbird folder because all this stuff lives inside your user Library. to include system files in a search start finder search using command+f, click on "kind" scroll and click on "other". in the resulting popup select 'system files' and change the settings to include them in the search.

Spotlight does not work on iphone 6 with ios 8.1.2

Since a few weeks the spotlight search does not work anymore on my iphone. I tried removing all subjects in the setiings menu and adding them again.

No, it should work with the iPad. It's not a matter of what version of iOS is on the device.
The card reader has never been compatible with any iPhone. It is compatible with iPads.
~Lyssa

Want to set mailto for google apps;tried editing the gecko...mailto.2.uritemplate as per instructions found on web; set 3 related config values to "true" as per instructions; does not work; tried javascript method without success

I want to set the mailto app for google apps gmail.
I tried editing the gecko...mailto.2.uritemplate as per instructions found on web (https://mail.google.com/a/MYDOMAIN/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s.
Set 3 related config values to "true" as per instructions (network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto ; network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto ; AND, third, gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost.
Does not work, no Google Apps in the mailto app spot.
Tried javascript method in address bar without success:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/MYDOMAIN/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Google Apps GMail")
Any light anyone can shed will be appreciated. Cheers, jlf

Great howto Steve! This further increased my understanding of the MVC patterns used by BC4J.
Some remarks:
[*]Select New Business Components...
This should be 'New Business Components Package', or you won't be able to add business components.
ename as "Name",
sal as "Salary"
from emp
where empno = ?That should be deptno.
[*]Select the EditEmpsInDepartment view objectThat should be EmpsInDepartment.
Greetings,
Ivo

Folder Actions will not work - tried everything

Recently Folder Actions simply stopped working on 10.6.4. They worked fine before then recently just stopped working.
I've tried everything I can think of, including:
1. completely removing enabling & disabling & enabling folder actions through the setup app.
2. trashing folder actions plist files in user domain and relaunching
3. disabling related launchd processes with lingon
4. trashing launch agents in user domain and also trying to unload them in terminal
5. trying to kill the folder actions dispatcher process in activity monitor (just relaunches, as it should)
6. emptying system caches including dyld shared cache using cocktail
7. doing most of the above and restarting
It's driving me nuts. Any other ideas?
here's some entries from syslog:
8/2/10 9:31:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
8/2/10 9:37:29 AM Folder Actions Setup[4403] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:43:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[309]) Exited: Killed
8/2/10 9:46:23 AM [0x0-0x3a03a].com.apple.systemevents[360] com.apple.FolderActions.enabled: Already loaded
8/2/10 9:52:07 AM Folder Actions Setup[1083] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:52:16 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds
8/2/10 9:53:02 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds
8/2/10 9:56:18 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/2/10 10:00:58 AM Folder Actions Setup[2190] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 10:01:01 AM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[2236] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.FolderActions.folders
8/2/10 10:01:30 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
8/2/10 10:01:42 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
8/2/10 10:05:03 AM sudo[2622] lryter : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/lryter ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl unload -w /Users/lryter/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
8/2/10 10:10:25 AM Folder Actions Setup[676] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 10:10:27 AM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[680] launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/lryter/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist"): No such file or directory
8/2/10 10:10:27 AM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[680] nothing found to unload
8/2/10 10:10:38 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
8/2/10 10:13:17 AM sudo[943] lryter : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/lryter ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl unload -w /Users/lryter/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
8/2/10 10:14:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
8/2/10 10:14:14 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds

I finally go Folders Action to work, after being unable to use it even for a simple beep for years now.
Here is what I did:
1. Changed permissions to 755 for the following folder and two contained files (note that 775 didn't work for me)
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
2. Changed the following lines within ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist (using TextWrangler)
from:
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
to:
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
Prior to the permissions changes within #1 above, the value of <true/> kept getting changed back to <false/> by something in the system... and though
there was improvement by the permissions changes, the following console message appeared until false was changed to true.
com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[4127] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.FolderActions.folders
At this point true is staying true, and not being changed by unknown forces to false, and the above message is not appearing.
3. The only other thing I did prior to #1 and #2 above, was to run the script (unsaved),
tell application "/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Dispatcher.app" to tick
This little tell line caused something to occur where my Folder Action surprised me and worked for the first time though it took about 30 seconds and was erratic,
sometimes performing, sometimes not, though if I would do move something into the folder to trigger the action that should occur, and did not occur, then at the point
running the above tell line or script would cause the action to occur.
4. At this point I don't fool with the tell line or script from #3, and it seems that systemevents has gotten involved, as well as launchd, and with my simple Folder Action script
I'm getting the folder action within 10 seconds compared to 30 to 45 if ever seconds.
5. This is still too early to tell if this is the wonder pill I've needed since Leopard, and now Snow Leopard (and maybe Tiger as well: I forget when I even tried Folder Actions).
There was a time when I moved things around, so that the items normally found in the former AppleScript folder, were placed elsewhere in subfolders, so I don't know if that lead to this...
because I could get Folder Actions to work on Macs in the Applestore, but not my own Mac. Watching the console messages was helpful. I don't think it's a big concern that
deprecated messages are found sometimes. That's a just a normal part of the constantly rebuilding of things that goes on. It's more like a reminder that we've got an upgraded
OEM part were going to start using, and the older part won't be available after such and such date, so program accordingly, and in the meantime drive.

Built in iSight Not working- tried everything here so far?

I'm having the "Camera in use by another app" error with my built in iSight on a dual core Macbook Pro. My cam worked in 10.5, but I started getting the error with the 10.5.1 upgrade. Photobooth and Quicktime both can access the camera fine.
Per Apple Tech Support's recommendations, I've uninstalled and reinstalled iChat, zapped PRAM and SMC, trashed various prefs and generally done everything but revert back to 10.5. Tried the ecamm software. Now both Apple Tech Support and I are stumped...

If you have tried all of those and it does not appear in the Apple System Profiler then it is time for....
Shut any Airport Card.
Shut Computer down.
If Ethenet disconnect on end from computer of modem.
Restart Comouter with no internet connection
Restart iChat
Reconnect internet
Log into AIM
Do you have a camera now ?
7:44 PM Thursday; November 22, 2007

Audio Not working, tried everything...

My sound hasn't been working for a couple days now, I've tried the HP vidoes and Forums and done everything (restores, re-installed the audio, etc.) and nothing has fixed the problem. When i scroll over the audio symbol it has an X on it and says "The Audio Service is not running". I right click, choose 'Playback' and it shows the Speakers and 'Stereo Mix, Realtek High Definition Audio' are disabled, I click 'Enable' but it does nothing. I've gone into Computer Management and right clicked 'Windows Audio' and hit Start but a box pops up saying 'Windows could not start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer. Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.' Please help, I have online homework to do but I cannot hear the video!

Start with looking at THIS. If that does not do the trick, then follow the steps in THIS thread.
If all that fails, look at this YouTube VIDEO.
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My i photo version 9.2.3 does not open. tried everything

My I photo version does not open. Tried everything.

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a potential solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
what do you see when iPhoto tries to open?
what fixes have you tried?
where is your library located?
did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
are you running a "managed" or "referenced" library?
what type of Mac?
how much free space on your boot drive?
Happy New Year

SOS: spotlight does not work for me

hi there all
If I search for a specific file, and I type in the exact characters of a file name, even located on my desktop, Find File returns me three hundred files with the most arcane names, none of which are remotely close to what I asked to return.
Further, I have tried to select the order that types of files would be returned in the preferences panel, but Find File does not follow this request, giving me every kind of file type first before finally offering me the file type I most want prioritized- and then the file with the exact name i requested is usually at the end of the list they return! Any advice would be appreciated, thanks
Fenton

The order preferences affect the results in the Spotlight (menubar) search.
If you want to search by filename, and not content and metadata, you should use Find (Cmd-F) to change one of the criteria options to Name:Contains and enter your filename on the same line.
Alternatively, in both Find and the menubar and window Spotlight, you can limit the oval search to metadata - thereby ignoring content-based results - by putting your search term in " "s.

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