Spotlight not finding documents on Mac despite indexing

This appears to be a bug in macOS Tahoe. It persists even after rebuilding the Spotlight index. To fix the issue, what worked for me was to launch Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor and force quit the Spotlight and spotlightknowledged processes (they will reinitiate themselves). After that, Spotlight searches worked properly, and continue working after rebooting, etc.

(If you prefer and know how, you can also use Terminal to kill Spotlight and related processes.)

Lanshap wrote:

Thank-you for your suggestion. All of my switches are the same as yours. Still no luck.

I would say the best you can do at this point is Shut down and restart.

>Shut Down...

unless you want to try the rebuild all over.... the best way I found:

ref: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

Lanshap wrote:

Thank-you but this unfortunately did not fix my problem

I would verify some options did not get flipped off—

Thanks, @neuroanatomist! I didn't think of trying to restart the processes, but it worked perfectly.

Thanks!