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Spotlight has stopped indexing/returning anything in /Applications

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20264755 views
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After a recent kernel panic & restart, Spotlight no longer seems to know anything about the files under my /Applications folder. I used to launch Safari.app, Opera.app, Textedit.app, etc via Spotlight as a matter of routine. Now, I get "No results found" for all of them (except Textedit.app, which …

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Fix for: Spotlight has stopped indexing/returning anything in /Applications

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To completely rebuild the index, run the following from Terminal.app: This works, although it takes some time.

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