alt Hacker NewsOn my Intel mac searching with cmd+space for a file takes under a second. Maybe there is a problem on your end?
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fragmede • today at 1:06 AM
Absolutely there's a problem on my end, but how do I fix it! How did it get to that state in the first place? How do I make it not come back?
I’ve actually had worse problems as recently as last week: Apps stopped showing up completely in spotlight.
Only a system reinstall + manually deleting all index files fixed it. Meanwhile it was eating 20-30GB of disk space. There are tons of reports of this in the apple forums.
Even then, it feels a lot slower in MacOS 26 than it did before, and you often get the rug-pull effect of your results changing a millisecond before you press the enter key. I would pay good money to go back to Snow Leopard.