I tried doing a search for "weather Singapore" or weather with any other location for the matter but I get no results. Is there something I have to enable?
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New spotlight not working
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This is also happening for me, I have reported the bug.
When I first installed 10.11 for some reason the 'About this Mac' dialogue box still came up saying it was Yosemite (but I had some of the new features such as the multi-paned full screen view) - this changed to El Capitan upon a further restart.
Also, I don't think it's using the new system font.
When I first installed 10.11 for some reason the 'About this Mac' dialogue box still came up saying it was Yosemite (but I had some of the new features such as the multi-paned full screen view) - this changed to El Capitan upon a further restart.
Also, I don't think it's using the new system font.
Spotlight seems to always return strange results. I entered "Weather in California" and the top hit was the users manual for Apeture.
Same here, actually Spotlight acts as old spotlight, nothing like weather and movies, games etc working
Already reported it.
Some of these were supposed to work on Yosemite but what Apple weren't very clear about is that many of the spotlight features are restricted to the US.
Pretty sure you're right. For some reason Apple has it so it only works for those in the USA. To those with this issue, there's nothing wrong with your system, it's by design. The only question is how to get around it.
Ditto here. Tried getting weather and didn't do what i expected. I figured I had just imagined it was supposed to work or thought perhaps it was iOS spotlight that did this and i had confused the two.
Spotlight is AWFUL. I type something and it does literally NOTHING. If it's doing something internal, it sure as hell doesn't indicate it anywhere. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life on OS X. A giant thing pops up in the center of the screen instead of up by the menu bar where it belongs and you type something and it literally does nothing at all visibly and returns no results after 5 minutes. I'd call that BROKEN. If it's doing something, they could at least give a busy animation. It just sits there in this giant over-sized window and looks stupid.
My old VMware Fusion 5.x is also BROKEN that worked fine in Mavericks (will Apple give me the $80 to upgrade it? I didn't think so and yes it's $80 for 5.x upgrades).
I already spent $20 to upgrade Carbon Copy Cloner to try out 10.11. That'll make it the most expensive upgrade in the history of OS X at $100 total to get everything working again...oh wait, XtraFinder is now broken as well so trying to use the Finder is like going back to the STONE AGES (yes it's that bad compared to Xtrafinder) and since I have a RAID drive setup, I cannot boot into recovery as far as I can tell to disable rootless mode that might get it to work. Awesome upgrade so far. Everything is working at a snail's pace so far too boot (hoping that's just some spotlight crap and what not updating in the background even though it says I'm at 92% of CPU free (hard drive may be in heavy use or something).
My old VMware Fusion 5.x is also BROKEN that worked fine in Mavericks (will Apple give me the $80 to upgrade it? I didn't think so and yes it's $80 for 5.x upgrades).
I already spent $20 to upgrade Carbon Copy Cloner to try out 10.11. That'll make it the most expensive upgrade in the history of OS X at $100 total to get everything working again...oh wait, XtraFinder is now broken as well so trying to use the Finder is like going back to the STONE AGES (yes it's that bad compared to Xtrafinder) and since I have a RAID drive setup, I cannot boot into recovery as far as I can tell to disable rootless mode that might get it to work. Awesome upgrade so far. Everything is working at a snail's pace so far too boot (hoping that's just some spotlight crap and what not updating in the background even though it says I'm at 92% of CPU free (hard drive may be in heavy use or something).
After coming back hours later, Spotlight now finds files (still no indication it's doing anything visually until a result pops up) so I assume it was busy updating internally and too busy to respond earlier (again, an indication it's busy would help a LOT), but a weather for a city type search still doesn't work....
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Looking through the preference pane, weather isn't a search option on the list. So I just tried some movie names showing and some results for Bing came up in one case and a "MOVIE" came up for Hotel Transylvania 2 which when clicked on in the result pile (you have to scroll down in many cases despite 80% of the screen space there not being used) did bring up local show times so maybe it does work after all. I simply don't see weather as an option for Spotlight. There is a weather option for the notification center, though.
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Looking through the preference pane, weather isn't a search option on the list. So I just tried some movie names showing and some results for Bing came up in one case and a "MOVIE" came up for Hotel Transylvania 2 which when clicked on in the result pile (you have to scroll down in many cases despite 80% of the screen space there not being used) did bring up local show times so maybe it does work after all. I simply don't see weather as an option for Spotlight. There is a weather option for the notification center, though.
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