The easiest way to open spotlight is the command space bar option so hold the command key and hit the space bar once to open the search box then type what you believe it is your searching for.
Spotlight will now search for applications on your machine as well as files folders words or the words you search for within files and also on the interwebness But it comes down to what you search for is what you'll receive hits on. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 14 October 2019 11:38 PM To: Mac Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: No joy with Spotlight Since I upgraded to Mojave, I have not been able to do anything functional with Spotlight or any way of finding something on my computer. I try to follow the one thing I see on the internet which says to press VO+m three times and Spotlight will come up. This doesn't happen, so no problem, use command+spacebar. I type in a search string and I always and only see a list of folders on my backup/media disk. These never have anything to do with what I'm looking for. I used to love the command+option+spacebar, but this doesn't seem to work any longer. It would simply search the folder I was in, which is what I want. I realize this may not be clear or enough. Let me know what can help so that someone can help me, please!!! Kristeen -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/2588C674-A689-458D-A14F-FBE20533000E%40icloud.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/SY2PR01MB2987058616C79DBE7AFEB7E18A900%40SY2PR01MB2987.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com.
