Thanks Sam, I'll try the prefs option first!

Russell


On 26 September 2015 at 14:10, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]>
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> System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy > + button > add Macintosh HD >
> remove it again
>
> Or open Terminal and type in (does the same thing above) :
>
> sudo mdutil -E -a
>
> Push return and type your password.
>
> That'll erase and rebuild the spotlight indexes.
>
> Regards
>
> Sam
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> On 26 Sep 2015, at 11:50, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> After getting my graphics card fixed at Robert Harding (thanks for the
> help Sam), Spotlight seems to not be working.  I can pull it up using the
> command-space keystrokes, type in what I want to find, then it freezes.
> Sometimes it will find whatever I am looking for but it will not open from
> the spotlight bar, if i move the cursor over the bar I get the spinning
> beachball of doom. Then it vanishes...
>
> It doesn't appear to be indexing.  I'm not sure what to do about it.  Any
> bright ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Russell
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