Comments on: Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Major bugs in search results window

By: Théoden’s Coding Tips » Blog Archive » Mac OS X (10.5.6) Spotlight search results are crippled

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:05:31 +0000

[...] Major bugs in search results window [...]

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:27:44 +0000

I support a user with exactly the same issue. We replicated the disappearing act with two different macs Spotlighting one Xserve. Search Share, see results, dbl-click a result, app opens document, quit app, result instantly disappears from search results window in Finder. It doesn’t exist anymore according to Spotlight for a random amount of time.

Anyone found a work-around?…or any info at all towards one.

By: Brontojoris

Brontojoris — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:23:52 +0000

I’ve experienced this issue too. I think it is related to double clicking on the filename portion of a found result. If I click on the icon of the file it doesn’t happen.

The spotlight results window seems much more sensitive to renaming via click-click than the finder.

Also, I agree that not being able to choose the columns is pretty lame.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:04:48 +0000

All my volumes “appear to be OK,” according to Disk Utility.

I am strongly suspicious of claims that bugs are due to bad file systems when those bugs start occurring after the introduction of a specific new system build :-).

By: matsw

matsw — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:40:49 +0000

This sounds like a bad filesystem. Have you checked your disk with Disk Utility ?