Finder Search Stalls Out

My Finder stalls on the "searching" pinwheel anytime I try to search for something, and it never gives me any results. Spotlight works fine, other programs (such as mail) search fine, I just can't search with the Finder. Any ideas?

Hi Barry,
I did that but nothing's changed, even after using Onyx as some suggested. Spotlight acts like it's not even bothering to search for my search terms and the finder's Command-F search panel pops out soon as I type in more than two letters. Interestingly, they work just fine on two other accounts on the same machine.
Does that give you any clues?
Thanks for helping!
Trudi

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Anyone else has such a problem and has figured out on how to resolve it?
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The quality strategy of Apple has to be questioned: I do not need 200 NEW functions, but I need the previous basic functions STILL working!
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"File, Find, Searching "This Mac" or "New Finder Window" not finding files ?

I an iMac 7,1, Mac OS X 10.6.8, Build 10K549,
I have noticed on many occasions recently that when I ma using either ...
File, Find, Searching "This Mac"
or
"New Finder Window"
I am NOT finding the files I am looking for ...
I now they are there, so I go through all my folders, and find the files, or folders I am looking for ...
So why could this be happening, why are they not found in the search ?
Is there a fix or addition ?

As baltwo eventually explained, you have to add the search criteria "System files" to your search, with the option "Include" selected, to find many items Spotlight otherwise excludes from search results. Alternately (& quite ridiculously), if your search is restricted to the parent folder containing the item, you don't need to add this.
For example, if you open /Library in the Finder, enter "Desktop Pictures" in the search box, you won't get it in the results with the default "This Mac" location, but if you click "Library" for the location, you will. (Yes, many users think this is bizarre, "what were they thinking?" behavior.)
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This is embarrassing!
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TIA

Whew, sorry...
[A tedious description of various experiments, failing attempts to sort this problem omitted here.]
I note that Finder Preferences ---> Advanced offers 3 choices for searches, schematically:
     When performing a search:
      (1) Search This Mac
      (2) Search the Current Folder
      (3) Use the Previous Search Scope
[Another tedious description of more experiments omitted here.]
Just a moment... Selecting alternative (3) does the trick for me!   I can now restrict the search directory to "Fum". I just need to:
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<quoting my test results:>
I have done more testing this morning.
I had always worked with the Finder Preference > Advanced > When performing a search = Search the Current Folder. I changed this back to Search This Mac before conducting the following tests.
My conclusion is that the presence of any open DMG is causing the problem. Other connected drives (external) don't have any bearing; they work fine.
Test 1, with no DMG open:
Pointing to the David home folder.
Search Name=Dad
          This Mac=58
          Davidn=23
          This Mac=58
          David=23
This is as expected. The counts include files from an external hard drive, together with the internal drive.
Test 2, with a DMG (Personal) open:
Pointing to the David home folder.
Search Name=Dad
          This Mac=45 (Note that this number is lower than in test 1, and it should be higher by 3 because of the files in the DMG. Expected count was 61.)
          David=23
          This Mac = <spinner> (Expected 61)
          <cancel>
Test 3, with the DMG still open:
Search Name=Dad
          This Mac = 0 (Expected 61)
          David = 23
          This Mac = <spinner> (Expected 61)
          <cancel>
At this point, I closed the DMG.
Test 4, with no DMG open:
Search Name=Dad          This Mac=58
          David=23
          This Mac=58
          David=23
This is as expected. The counts include files from an external hard drive, together with the internal drive.
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Finder: Search in Specific Places...

Hallo!
I've read this doc:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107005
Do you know how to specify multiple places to search in for Finder Search Engine?

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I thought I had this resolved when I replaced the backup drive. Time machine backups of my server stall out. They start seemingly fine, but eventually they will reach a point where the progress bar just stops progressing. I can find nothing in any log to indicate why this may be happening. I replaced the backup drive and backups resumed normally until I noticed today it started stalling again. I have tried resetting time machine by stopping the service in sys prefs, deleting the time machine plist in the root library, and restarting time machine and choosing the drive. This did not resolve the issue. Any ideas?
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