MacOS Sierra Spotlight search does not find Numbers but Number

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My Spotlight search behaves strange and I don't know how to fix it.
Any Ideas?

When I want to open Numbers, I hit command space and start typing "number",

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but if I keep on typing the "s", essentially completing the app name Numbers, Spotlight does not know what to do anymore.

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Does the index point into a wrong direction? If I search for a specific file it works.

I tried the solutions by Anil and Senseful here, but the problem does not change

UPDATE

After rebuilding the Spotlight library the problem shortly disappeared (one week). But it returned again. So maybe my question is not how to solve this problem but what is corrupting my Spotlight index?

Interestingly the Spotlight results look a bit different now and shows the App-Store Numbers version (which then automatically opens the local one).

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Best Answer

I would first do as suggested in Hefewe1zen's answer, rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac.

If that doesn't fix the issue, then the next thing I'd try is rebuilding the Launch Services Database.

In Terminal:

/S*/L*/F*/C*/F*/L*/S*/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

I always use the short form of the command above, however here is the long form:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

There is no manual page for lsregister however, the following command outputs the internal help file:

/S*/L*/F*/C*/F*/L*/S*/lsregister --help

If you want to read more about rebuilding the Launch Services Database, Google is your friend!

If by chance neither of these suggested answers work, then I'd reinstall Numbers.

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