Spotlight's "Show All In Finder" Error

When clicking "Show all in Finder" from Spotlight search, I continually end up with a blank Finder window showing up. Solutions?

I am pretty sure this worked that way pre-Lion.
Nevertheless, in spotlight if you want to find the location of the file (how do you do that) - a right-click option "Open Location" would be a great feature. I mean what is the point searching for the file, seeing it, but have no idea where to copy it from, or remove it or otherwise?

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Hello
I have a mac book pro 2.7 Ghz i& with 16 GB RAM
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Also, When I check the preferrences, I have some yellow triangles for the keyboadr shortcut
I've reindex everything but same issues comes up.
2) Also, it seems that it only searches on local drive, not on my external drives as well, even though they are also indexed.
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Got me stumped there. My understanding (limited) is that the Apple Events daemon works for a while when freshly launched, but for reasons unknown it gets bolloxed after a certain number of calls. No error messages appear in Console, which makes it especially hard to track down. If yours gets hosed immediately, that's not the usual pattern.
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I have a significant number of files in my Macbook Air. A lot of them are research papers and medical literature.
About a month ago I updated the operating system from snow Leopard to mountain Lion and I had no reasons to complain except a smaller battery time.
Since then I installed every OS update.
After the last update, a few days ago, Spotlight does not open a finder window when i choose Show all in finder menu.
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I had the same problem yesterday after performing a clean install of Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on my MacBook Pro.
I resolved the problem by booting from the Mountain Lion Recovery Partition and then running Disk Utilty (Repair) for the primary disk on which Mountain Lion is installed. It identified (and repaired) many permissions issues...
When I rebooted following the repair, Spotlight worked again properly -- including the "Show All in Finder" function.

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Do you have at least 4 GBs of RAM installed and at least 20 GBs of free space on your hard drive.
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
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Files beginning with a period are usually hidden files to UNIX based systems. I am sorry I am away from my Macs so I cannot give you a pointer to displaying those files. Search help and the support part of this site for further information.
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Have brand new iMac running 10.8.2.
All going great except:
1 Spotlight will list files I search for very quickly top right but I can't get it to 'Show All in Finder', it just does nothing. It means I can't actually locate anything.
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It's the "Show All in Finder" command that it won't do. I see the immediate drop-down list and can open from that list, but if what I'm looking for didn't make it onto that initial list, I'm stuck.
If Alfred will work, then at least I have a temporary work-around.
Sorry if I wasn't clear before and thank you so much for the quick responses!!!

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Hello there, Tom in London.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great information in regard to the Spotlight preferences in Yosemite:
OS X Yosemite: Spotlight preferences
Search Results pane
Choose which categories appear in Spotlight search results: Select the categories you want to include, deselect those you don’t.
By default, Spotlight results include Spotlight Suggestions, Bing Web Searches, conversions, documents, folders, music, and more.
If you don’t want your Spotlight search queries and Spotlight Suggestions usage data sent to Apple, you can turn off Spotlight Suggestions by deselecting the Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches checkboxes. You can also turn off Location Services for Spotlight Suggestions in Security & Privacy preferences. If you turn off Location Services on your Mac, your precise location will not be sent to Apple. For detailed instructions and information, see About Spotlight Suggestions.
Change the order of results: Drag the categories until they’re in the order you want.
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