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spotlight el capitan

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    Spotlight doesn't search for files and folder

    Hi all, I'm on El Capitan and have been experiencing this problem: Spotlight suddenly stopped searching for files and folders, only apps, contacts and other information showed up. I realised that if I restart my Mac, it would get back to normal but after a period of time, that problem returns...
  2. borvol

    El Captain search problems

    I am running El Captain and having problems with the search function. It seems that it won't search any of my external drives. I saw a work around where you add and remove the drive in spotlight to get it to index them again, but that didn't work. Please help!
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    Issue with Spotlight + Finder

    Hey everyone, I'm running the latest OS X 10.11.2 (15C50) on a mid-2012 15" MBP (screenshot: http://cl.ly/2g00023m0E2f). I've been facing a rather annoying issue (even after resetting my Spotlight cache numerous times) – everytime I look for a file/folder using Spotlight and if Spotlight finds...