Choosing Spotlights "Show All" reveals nothing

Once I plug in a file to search for under Spotlight, and then I chose "Show All" nothing happens.
Any suggestions?

I have the same problem. Searching the drive works fine from the Spotlight corner, but when I click "Show All" the Finder-like window remains blank with the spinning wheel spinning forever. The Mac's built-in help function of course does not contain any help for this type of trouble-shooting (very weird post above).

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