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crooked-vtoday at 5:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's more useful until it spontaneously stops working, at which point you're stuck until and unless it spontaneously decides to work again.


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matwoodtoday at 8:07 AM

Spotlight works great for me but the index can occasionally become corrupted. There’s a set of commands you can run to force a rebuild if you’re having issues. I’ve had to do this a few times over the years. This is another place where it’d be nice if Apple had a GUI to manage things like this.

kfarrtoday at 7:12 AM

My favorite is how it’ll just forget which apps are installed. A list of like 30 items. If you had one job spotlight, it’s this