Is anyone else having trouble with this Apple recommended procedure to fix the spotlight function?
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
I am unable to search for Calendar items older than 2 months. Also, when doing a calendar search for a particular word it's not gathering all available results even if they are within the 2 month window.
Running Ventura 13.2.1 on my MacBook Pro.
Thanks for any help!
MacBook Pro (M2 Max, 2023)
junebug9813 wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble with this Apple recommended procedure to fix the spotlight function?
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
I am unable to search for Calendar items older than 2 months. Also, when doing a calendar search for a particular word it's not gathering all available results even if they are within the 2 month window.
Running Ventura 13.2.1 on my MacBook Pro.
Thanks for any help!
Verify >System Settings>Spotlight you have checked all appropriate boxes.
I have had the most complete luck, above all others, with the drag & drop method of the Macintosh HD icon method...compare your results and report back.
If you try to reindex Spotlight be aware that when you try to go to the Privacy section you'll get an error code. It's a bug in Ventura so we'll have to wait for an update to fix it.
You can reindex the boot drive with the terminal command:
sudo mdutil -E /
followed by the Return or Enter key.
@oldtoad
When I followed the noted procedure, I didn't see an obvious error code. Are you saying that with Ventura the Spotlight function has a system bug? I have not noticed a problem when searching my hard drive, only within Apple's calendar application.
@leroydouglas
Thanks for your reply. That's exactly what I tried; I dragged the HD to the Privacy window as shown above. Rebooted, came back in and removed the HD from the window, rebooted. I even waited 12 hours to do a search just to guarantee all the indexing was complete. No luck.
Rebuild the Spotlight index
