spotlight
Somehow my spotlight is not working correct.
After each reboot it will show only dictionary items. Then when I do
sudo mdutil -E /
it will find many items.
However applications shown are only which are owned by myself, applications owned by root will not show.
So basically I have two questions,
Why is spotlight not working properly at startup and must be reindexed always.
Should I take ownerships of all applications to myself?
Thanks
This happens whenever I erase the free space on my hard drive (probably for the same reason -- that process creates a big file that eats up all the free space, then overwrites it, creating a low space condition in the process). Typing this command at the terminal:
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name_Goes_Here
will rebuild your index. Substitute your own disk's volume name in the obvious place.
There's only one location in Settings where I've seen reference to this. Try going to...
Settings > General > Spotlight Search
This is what I see when I go to those settings. You should be able to select the option there. If you don't see that option, you might try setting Bing as your default search engine for Safari. Let me know if that helps or what you find.
Hope that helps!
Best Answer
It sounds like your volume permissions are incorrect. You don't say what version of OS X you're running, but the usual fix is to open Disk Utility, select the volume and Repair Permissions on it.
After that, reboot so that processes launch under the correct permissions and it should be working as expected.