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Spotlight not returning results for Apps intermittently - Sonoma
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working for me, but Spotlight is confusing trained shortcuts for me
not sure if this was already the case with Ventura, as i've skipped it, going from Monterey -> Sonoma
but in Monterey, after having trained it one single time and just needed to repeat this after every .x OS update
but now it starts to forget those after just a couple of times and picks the most recent ones, instead of the one it was initially trained for and even had been working for a couple of times
examples:
f + enter = opens finder
fi + enter = firefox
but after a couple of times having used both, f will now start firefox too, which literally NEVER happened on Monterey (after the simple one time "training phase")
it also happens for other things, but these are the most irksome for me
not sure if this was already the case with Ventura, as i've skipped it, going from Monterey -> Sonoma
but in Monterey, after having trained it one single time and just needed to repeat this after every .x OS update
but now it starts to forget those after just a couple of times and picks the most recent ones, instead of the one it was initially trained for and even had been working for a couple of times
examples:
f + enter = opens finder
fi + enter = firefox
but after a couple of times having used both, f will now start firefox too, which literally NEVER happened on Monterey (after the simple one time "training phase")
it also happens for other things, but these are the most irksome for me
Yes, absolutely! I have this on a mac mini with Monterey (so maybe your Sonoma problem is related to Monterey?). This started at some point >1 yr ago. Spotlight will return nothing or sometimes a few results (often apps as discussed). Sometimes Spotlight works as expected! Sometimes I come into the room and hear the mini's fans running. Many times I've checked to find Spotlight processes consuming a lot of CPU (not that it helps the results!) No issues on another Mac running Ventura, now Sonoma. Problem is such a pain, I installed Alfred as a replacement; it works well enough.
I've reinstalled OS from recovery, booted into safe mode many times, disabled Spotlight and rm'd all indexes via terminal. Still the problem returns again and again.