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Spotlight won't search Documents or OneDrive since Tahoe update

Every since I've updated to Tahoe, Spotlight won't search my Documents folder or OneDrive (where I store most of my docs). This includes documents in OneDrive that are stored locally on the computer. I've tried reindexing it to no avail, and I've updated to the latest version of Tahoe. Every time I search for docs I get answers from the web or a request on whether I want to search iCloud Drive. Is there any way to fix this at all?

On another note, there is no optoin to tag this question as being related to Tahoe. I have to select Sequioa!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Oct 5, 2025 10:10 PM

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Posted on Oct 6, 2025 6:11 AM

Whenever I have problems with Spotlight (more common since Sonoma), I nuke the .Spotlight-v100 directory, restart indexing, and log out and back in to make it re-index. The first command nukes the folder, and it may or may not restart indexing. So, I add the other two to do that, but it still usually needs a restart or log out/in.

sudo mdutil -X /; sudo mdutil -i on; sudo mdutil -E /

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Oct 6, 2025 7:07 AM in response to Barney-15E

Done, and index rebuild complete. Still...

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Oct 6, 2025 7:10 AM in response to Barney-15E

I guess we lost the progress bar in Spotlight that if you typed in a letter or word it would show a progress bar of Spotlight indexing.

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Oct 6, 2025 5:57 PM in response to neuroanatomist

neuroanatomist wrote:

Ok, still a complete fail. Spotlight is a train wreck.

For what it's worth, I expect that should be fixed in the next update of Tahoe.

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Oct 9, 2025 2:06 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for your response. I had already checked that Documents and Folders was enabled and no the HD isn't in the Search privacy.

Bit confused as to why there's a separate Tahoe community?

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Oct 9, 2025 2:08 AM in response to Barney-15E

Hi, thanks for your reply. I have no idea how to do all that, I'm afraid. Not that technical!

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Oct 9, 2025 2:25 AM in response to eloisemac

eloisemac wrote:

Bit confused as to why there's a separate Tahoe community?

There is a separate community for the three current versions of macOS, and a separate community for earlier versions.

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