Indexing and search diagrammed, leading to the diagnosis of problems with Spotlight, and their resolution.
Category Archive: Technology
Does Big Sur require you to sign your own apps or other code using a proper Apple-issued signature? What about notarization and quarantine? Your questions answered.
How you might be able to update an external bootable disk, errors you can encounter, and how can you use 1 True Recovery?
Apple asks us to report all bugs through Feedback, a system which it controls, and uses to its own advantage. Doing so discourages Apple from thoroughly testing its products, and we’re the losers.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 86. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Julian, […]
Adds further features to diagnose Spotlight indexing and search problems. First full release at last.
How to install macOS on your M1 Mac’s external SSD. But it comes with a snag: you can only install 11.2 and can’t update it to 11.2.1.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Julian, Gregorian […]
Global in the menu bar, Local in the Finder, Core in-app, and Third-party for other developers. Spotlight is a chimera, and each finds different items.
Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.
The Eclectic Light Company 