Spotlight not finding files it should be, including file types it shouldn't
I have several folders and documents with the word "Kiosk" in the name as a full word (not as part of another word or preceded by an underscore.) When I search my hard drive for "Kiosk" spotlight shows no results. These documents are in my documents folders. Why are they not appearing in seach results? Now I'm worried, what else doesn't Spotlight find? I used to see this problem years ago in OS X 10.3 but thought they had fixed it long ago.
Meanwhile, I don't want Safari history or emails to clutter up my search results when searching by context. I have these two things unchecked in my Spotlight system preferences, but they still appear in search results.
I'm baffled by this errors suddenly appearing after using Snow Leopard for this long. Is there a way to make Spotlight work correctly?
Mike K wrote:
I still can't get rid of the emails and safari history items in my search results.
Don't waste your time. I filed a bug report for this;
I've set Spotlight's Search Results to not show webpages. However, webpages are depicted.
Engineering responded with:
After reviewing your submission engineering has determined that the behavior you reported is as expected/designed.
The spotlight preferences set in the prefpane only apply to the spotlight menu in the menubar, not in the finder.
Thus, your only option is to use the crappy Spotlight menu, which you can't tailor for searches. If you think this is ill-designed, as I do, File a bug report with Apple.
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Why is Spotlight not finding files in Applications Support
Why is Spotlight not finding files in Users/UserName/Library/Applications Support ?
What needs to be configured to do that?
Thanks.CMD+F, click on Kind, select Other, and enable additional criteria. See http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html and http://homepage.mac.com/francines/articles/Leopard/leospot.html for starters.
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YIKES! "Searching" & Spotlight not finding
OK, I'm scared. I copy the name of a file. I do a Cmd + F and paste the name of the file into the "Search for" field. Nothing. I have only one criteria, "Kind" "Any" I ask to search the directory it's in. No response. I remove and add the directory to the parameters continually. No response.
Spotlight not finding it either.
I try others. Same thing. Spotlight preferences are factory default and include "Music."
I have two files with the string I am looking for, one in a directory on my hard drive, not locked, I read and write to it daily. The other file is on a CD.
I ask to search both places. Spotlight finds the string on the CD but not on my hard drive. I started trying other files in other directories and I'm getting the same thing in the Finder Search. Spotlight not as bad, but still has problems.
This string is "stoddard." The file on the drive is actually located in two different directories and is labeled "1.01_stoddard.mp3" The one that it does find on the CD is "AUGUST 6 STODDARD.mp3"
Help me. This is scaring me. I've got tons of people I am converting to Mac. This is not going to go over well.
I've been looking and I just can't find any options or parameters I should be checking that would affect this. This is pretty simple stuff.
I tried looking for envelope.rtf which is in a completely different directory and Search did not find it though Spotlight did.
-WmMy results are disturbing. My eMac G4 doesn't seem to have a problem with finding files. My G5 definitely does. And it has a few other funny glitches, like a couple of my Mail filters are wonky. I've set up hundreds of them and there are three that are just plain stuck and send the mail to unexpected places or don't filter at all.
Since the Spotlight glitch is intermittent, I don't think we can set up any benchmarks between us. Because Spotlight might not find envelope.rtf on my system, doesn't mean it won't find the filename on yours.
What you need to do is search for various files on your system and see if Spotlight finds them.
I doubt this is a string recognition problem, it's likely a search program error at the processor level. Probably something to do with the logic that makes the search appear speedy. Likely there's something in that programming that "falls out" when G5 is processing.
Apple is ****-bent on getting the G6 out there pronto. These anomalies may be why.
-Wm
Your results are strange.
If I try using your "1.01_stoddard.mp3" filename I
find the file with the Spotlight menu, the Spotlight
window and a smart folder.
If I delete the file, then search for it again
"1.01_stoddard.mp3" it is, of course not found, then
I create a new file and rename it to
"1.01_stoddard.mp3" Spotlight finds it immediately.
Do you want to try to debug this here in the
discussion?
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Could Not Find The Application That Created This File
Hello Community,
I have already been to the Acrobat forum with this post and they re-directed me to this forum.
My problem seems to be with a InDesign file that will not export to a PDF, nor can I create the PDF from within Acrobat itself. BTW I have Acrobat 8.1.6 on a Vista OS.
Here is what I've done thus far:
restarted my computer, which didn't correct anything
printed the InDesign file to the PDF printer unsuccessfully
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Please NOTE: I have no problem with creating a PDF with either a Word or Illustrator file; it's the InDesign file that's giving me a problem. The message I get when I try to export from within InDesign to a PDF file is "Could not find the application that created this file; please select a file created by an application that resides on your computer."
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Before replying to you, I decided to give it another go. This time out, I
was finally able to export the InDesign file, which I created, to a PDF.
Hooray!
I have found, in the past, that restarting my computer will clear something
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i keep randomly getting this error in some of my managed devices.
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Does anyone have any clue about this?
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[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:46.218] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Begining to register policy handlers.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:46.437] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Registering handlers for Policy Handler Registration Module] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:46.437] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Configuration file C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\conf\PolicyHandlersRegistrat ion.xml] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.062] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Deserialized 5 handlers] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.062] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Got 5 valid handlers to register.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.078] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Loading handler assembly: C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\launcherconfig. dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.171] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Registering launcher configuration policy with ActionManager.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.171] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [register handler for launcher configuration policy returning True] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.171] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Loading handler assembly: C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\WindowsGroupPol icyPlural.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.296] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Registering grouppolicy with ActionManager.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.296] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [register handler for grouppolicy returning True] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.296] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Loading handler assembly: C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\Printerenf.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.390] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [printer policy] [] [Creating wrapper] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.500] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [printer policy] [] [Exception while creating Providers
Exception Details: The type initializer for 'Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Zenw orksPrinterProviderPINVOKE' threw an exception.
at Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Zenwo rksPrinterProviderPINVOKE.new_PrinterProvider()
at Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Print erProviderWrapper.GetProvider(ILoggerWrapper logger)] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.515] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [printer policy] [] [Exception in Handler constructor
Exception Details: The type initializer for 'Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Zenw orksPrinterProviderPINVOKE' threw an exception.
at Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Print erProviderWrapper.GetProvider(ILoggerWrapper logger)
at Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Print erPolicyHandler..ctor()] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.515] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Exception occurred while registering handler printer policy. Exception details: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.515] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Inner Exception details: The type initializer for 'Novell.Zenworks.PolicyHandlers.PrinterPolicy.Zenw orksPrinterProviderPINVOKE' threw an exception.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.515] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [register handler for printer policy returning False] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.515] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Loading handler assembly: C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\browserbookmark senf.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.531] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [browserbookmarkspolicy] [] [Entered the constructor] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.531] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Registering browserbookmarkspolicy with ActionManager.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.531] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [register handler for browserbookmarkspolicy returning True] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.531] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Loading handler assembly: C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\dluenf.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.671] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Registering dlu policy with ActionManager.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.671] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [register handler for dlu policy returning True] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.984] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [MessageLogger] [] [Unable to write to event log (Application) using source (Novell.Zenworks.Logger) Exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The event log file is full
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.InternalWriteEvent(UIn t32 eventID, UInt16 category, EventLogEntryType type, String() strings, Byte() rawData, String currentMachineName)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String message, EventLogEntryType type, Int32 eventID, Int16 category, Byte() rawData)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String source, String message, EventLogEntryType type, Int32 eventID, Int16 category, Byte() rawData)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String source, String message, EventLogEntryType type, Int32 eventID)
at log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender.Append(LoggingEv ent loggingEvent)] [] []
[ERROR] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.671] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [EXTENSIONUTILS.RegistrationModule.FailedRegistrati onMessage] [The following modules could not be registered: printer policy. The configurations of these types would not be applied on this device.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.984] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Policy Handler Registration Module] [] [Completed registration of policy handlers.] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.984] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [ModuleLoader] [] [Start() for module com.novell.zenworks.module.policyhandlerregistrati onmodule returned successfully] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:47.984] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [ModuleLoader] [] [Before calling Initialize() for module com.novell.zenworks.module.remotemanagement at path C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\modules\Novell.Zenworks. RMModule.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.046] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [ModuleLoader] [] [Initialize() for module com.novell.zenworks.module.remotemanagement returned successfully] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.046] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [ModuleLoader] [] [Before calling Start() for module com.novell.zenworks.module.remotemanagement at path C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin\modules\Novell.Zenworks. RMModule.dll] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.046] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Remote Management Module] [] [(RMMODULE_DEBUG)Initialized(RMMODULE_DEBUG)] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.078] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Remote Management Module] [] [(RMMODULE_DEBUG) Adding Property Pages (RMMODULE_DEBUG)] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.078] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [PolicyManager] [] [Entered PolicyManager.RegisterComponent] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.078] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [PolicyManager] [] [Registered the component remotemgmt] [] []
[DEBUG] [01/10/2012 11:27:48.109] [1736] [ZenworksWindowsService] [5] [] [Remote Management Module] [] [(RMMODULE_DEBUG)Trying to START service in Start Method (RMMODULE_DEBUG)] [] []matos02,
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Spotlight not finding files or folders
I recently installed 'SimplifyMedia' and am trying to figure out how to uninstall the program. I e-mailed customer support and they told me to 'Spotlight' the term 'SimplifyMedia' and erase anything that shows up.
I then did a 'Spotlight' search for 'SimplifyMedia' and only the application showed up. Upon manually searching for files I found these additional things.
1.) A 'SimplifyMedia' folder inside my user/library/application support/simplifymedia
2.) A 'SimplifyMedia' file inside user/library/preferences
File = com.simplifymedia.Manager.plist
How come these didn't show up during the 'Spot Light' search? On my 'Spot Light' preferences I have every box checked so it should do a search of the entire harddrive, right? How do I get 'Spotlight' to show every file and folder on my hardrive with the words 'SimplifyMedia'?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-DanSpotlight does not search the Library folders by default. It can be configured to do so.
1. Press COMMAND-F to initiate a Spotlight search.
2. Select Other from the drop down menu displaying Kind.
3. Scroll down the list to System Files. Check the box to the right of that entry.
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My test for this is to search in folder for a file I know is in there. But, spotlight in finder isn't finding the file. Why? What prevents SPotlight in FInder from seeing files that are there? None of my drives are in the privacy section of the spotlight preferences.
Leopard 10.5.6 Mac Prothis is certainly not normal. it looks like spotlight indexing is choking on something. if this continues you should probably stop it. look in the console log. there may be a record of what it's choking on. you can try deleting the hidden spotlight folder at the top of the drive. this will restart indexing and delete all the current spotlight data. if it keeps doing this I don't really know what to suggest. you can try excluding various folders on the drive from spotlight to see if you can isolate where the problem is.
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Spotlight not finding files on Mountain Lion
My Spotlight and Finder searches don't find most files/folders/applications on ML 10.8. The files are there if I browse to them manually, and I'm hoping I can fix this without a clean install.
Some things I have tried:
I've dragged the entire HDD to the Spotlight Privacy tab and removed it (to re-index).
I've checked Spotlight Preferences and everything is checked under Search Results.
Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions.Agreed, definitely something screwed up :-)
Tried deleting the preferences file (from ~/Library/Preferences). Nothing I did after that recreated the file including going and changing the settings (e.g. adding a directory to exlude and saving via Spotlight preferences pane), which is a bit odd.
Regardless, after that, I redid the recreation steps (i.e. adding / removing mac HD via spotlight prefs, the 3 mdutil commands above etc) and still nothing. AFAICT, there is basically no indexing or no search going on in spotligh, I think this because when I try to search via spotlight, it does nothing (i.e. not even the usual spinning wheel) and immediately returns no results, so either it is not searching or is searching an empty/tiny index I think.
Unless you have other ideas, I am going to do some jiggling (e.g. restart), maybe wait for an OS update or two and if nothing else, try reverting to an earlier time machine backup (would much rather not do this last). Any other ideas appreciated. -
Spotlight not finding files that definitely exist.
I have spent the day backing up and syncing.
I have an epson P4000 (PSD). I also have two external drives (yes, this may be overkill, but I never do it). The P4000 is backed up and synced to both drives.
When I do a search for all files with a .RAW extension in the three places, the P4000 and one drive find all the files (2798) but the other drive only shows 602 files.
I know the files are there. Why isn't spotlight finding them? How can I make it find them?
Thanks for any info.The Spotlight index may not be up to date for that drive.
You can force Spotlight to re-index any drive (including the drive you boot from) by opening System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy and dragging the icon for the drive into Privacy.
Then close System Preferences, and I believe you may need to log out and log back in again.
Then go back into System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy and select the drive now in the Privacy list and click the "-" at the bottom of the list to remove it from the list. Whenever an item is removed from the Privacy list, Spotlight immediately sets out to index it.
You can tell if Spotlight is indexing by clicking on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar. If it is indexing it will state that along with an estimate of how long it has to go.
Also note that if any of your files have the System or Hidden attributes the normal Spotlight search results pulldown won't show them. But you can still find them using the other interface to Spotlight in the Finder.
Open a Finder window and type Command-f to bring up the search criteria lines. In the second line, click on the "kind" drop down and select "other" from the list. A panel will show up giving all the various possible search criteria. The two of interest for finding such files are System Files and File Invisibility. If you check the check box to the right of any lines in that panel those search items will be added to the "kind" drop down list so that you don't have to go back through "other" to select them in the future. The drop down just to the right of the "kind" drop down specifies the rule to apply to that search criteria. So if you select System Files in the first drop down, you also need to select "Include" in the second drop down to see those files in the search results.
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Spotlight Not finding files Re indexing does not work
As the title says really, but there is more.
If I am logged in as one of two users, I can't find the file in the spotlight search, not quite...but if I log in as a new user, the file appears within a few characters being typed in the Spotlight of the new User.
The File title is Su Birth Cert.jpg
If I am logged in as that user, I have to type the filename and include the (.) full stop at the end just before the 'jpg' I don't need to type as far as jpg, Just the Full stop (.)
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Hi, I changed my Selection-List into a Popup-LOV. 1. Now I want to edit this Popup-Window, that it shows more than 10 rows. Is it possible to edit this window? 2. My return-value is the Primary Key of the chosen dataset. This is not very user friendl
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when trying to open elements 6, i get an error message : Organizer has stopped working Details: APPCRASH