Sequoia Spotlight missing in Action!

[haralds]

Spotlight constantly forgets where Apps and files are. I have reset it several times (Onyx, Command Line, Dragging into the Private folder and removing it from there,) but quickly it again reverts to just showing Safari items.

Has anybody else seen it? Has anybody found a permanent fix?

 

[4nthony]

Spotlight used to be so reliable. Now, it struggles finding anything. For example...

No clue why it won't find the string I'm searching for when the string is in the name of the file.

Like you, I've gone through all the steps to rebuild the index. Nothing seems to help. It was helpful that it found the string inside one of my notes, but finding the actual files would've been better.