Comment by nailer

2 days ago

> Each update seemed to chip away at something I liked about the platform.

I have a MBP, 48GB RAM running today's stable version of macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

If I do cmd+space and type something it has 0 results for anything in my Documents folder. It's been that way for momnths despite all the OS updates.

macOS used to be good.

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illwrks  2 days ago

Have you inadvertently set the search privacy on your drive? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl1bb43b84/...

If that's not the issue try rebuilding your Spotlight search index: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102321

  • saagarjha  2 days ago

    No, Spotlight has just been broken for several years. Thankfully Tahoe seems to have improved it a bit for me.

  • nailer  2 days ago

    Thanks, I wasn't looking for technical support. I did spend some time figuring this out (it was 'sudo mdutil -E /' that fixed it) but my point was:

    The experience of using macOS, which I pay a large amount of money for, wasn't better than a Linux distribution.