I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (M2 2022). I am running on MacOS Monterey 12.6 and using up about 50% of the storage capacity. I am finding searching in Finder agonizingly slow, much slower than I experienced on my previous computer a 2015 MacBook, with almost all of its storage capacity filled. Surely, a brand-new machine should be able to search for files more quickly. Can anyone suggest something I might check/do to speed up searches?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Typically looking for documents (MS Word, Powerpoints, etc.). As a teacher I am often looking for past lecture material, searching with keywords. With my old 2015 machine, I would find stuff almost instantly. With the brand new machine, the search spins for minutes before returning the search results.
Hello and thank you for using Apple Discussions,
Let’s start from the basic steps.
Try to force close finder: How to force an app to close on your Mac – Apple Support (UK)
If that doesn’t work, try to restart your Mac:
(Choose Apple menu > Restart.)
Thanks,
Maverick.
Have you tried:
kind:word created:01/01/2022-07/01/2022
kind:power +.pptx name:student created:>09/01/2022
kind:excel +.xlsx name:grade modified:>09/01/2022
kind:word name:john modified:<11/01/2022
These say the following in order:
What are you searching for and what syntax are you using to do so? Are you using Spotlight keywords to narrow your search?
search taking so long