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  1. D

    Spotlight/Finder/Document Searching Issues

    Okay, so I have a 2010 Macbook Pro, 13.3 inch with 10.6.8. It seems like every time I make a file in textedit or edit one, then try to find it later, I can't. Every few days the file will show back up. I guess this means it's indexing, but there's no indication of that on my laptop by the...
  2. dk001

    9.3 and Spotlight .... Lockup

    On an iPhone 6S+ running 9.3 (64GB AT&T). Couple of new Spotlight issues. Intermittent but frequent, when pulling down on the screen to launch Spotlight, if the keyboard bounces and drops out Spotlight locks and only the Home button will close it. Originally found this when I was seeing if...
  3. SuperKerem

    iPad Pro - Something I Noticed

    I was watching some videos about the iPad Pro today, and noticed that the Spotlight Search layout was slightly changed from iOS 9.1 (version the iPad Pro shipped with) to iOS 9.2 onwards. Yes, I know this is quite insignificant but I'm still curious to see which layout you guys prefer :) (I...
  4. Riwam

    Beware of Windows 10 "Spotlight"

    Thanks to the kind information of Shirasaki I learned of this new feature of Windows 10. It downloads from Bing well made professional photographies and offers them to be used as lock screen. :rolleyes: In my case I had installed in my old MacBook 4.1 early 2008, Windows 8.1, parallel to my OSX...
  5. Shawzborne

    General iOS 9.3 beta 4 Spotlight installed(not App Store) app search broken

    Hi Everyone, Once again here is a big issue with iOS 9 at the moment (for me anyway until we see the polls) is spotlight search. iOS 9.3 beta 4 Spotlight app search is slow for locating 1st party apps such as Phone app Contacts app, Reminders app. For 3rd party apps such as (Snapchat...
  6. A

    Spotlight-induced performance problems

    This is a sort of 'to-whom-it-may-concern post, as I think I have identified the cause and solution to a problem that started with El Capitan on my machines (1). The symptoms are: UserEventAgent, cfprefsd, and mds_stores all use unusually high amounts of CPU time. There is a constant...