After registering for a Spotify account, you get directed to a page that should automatically launch the installation file for your Mac. To download the software, follow these steps: If the installation file doesn’t automatically launch, go to Spotify and click Download Now. Whether the file launches automatically or you manually download it, your browser. I always type the first one or two letters of an app in Spotlight, eg: 'Sp' would bring up Spotify. Spotlight now seems completely incapable of finding my apps unless I fully type out the name, eg 'Spotif' yields no results but 'Spotify' does. I really want this back. If this is a bug this is beyond a sloppy release. I'm on MAC OS X with the same problem.:'(However, the problem might not be on Spotify's end? On both iPad and iPhone you need to install the Chromecast app to be able to set up the Chromcast Audio. There is, however, no app for any of the new Chromecasts in the App Store, maybe this is where the problem lies? This is a real shame though.
Stop Spotify from Opening on Startup (Mac) Why Can’t I Log In Spotify? I am yet to find a reliable source about the real cause, but my hunch is: you are either using a different network with a foreign IP address, or you are traveling outside of your country. Because Spotify has different settings and pricing structures among different countries. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
I am running Mac os x 10.11.1
The bug was there already at Mac os x Yosemite
Mac Spotlight Not Finding Spotify Account
I have Spotify installed on my mac. But when I search for 'Spotify' in Spotlight, only system files will show up, not the Spotify application. Spotify in app purchases for features. So I have to manually start Spotify from the Dock (or from Launchpad). Is this a known bug?
I have now idea of what the problem is. Does someone have the same problem, or is it something wrong with my computer? Does someone have a fix that I can try? All other applications can be launched from Spotlight.
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
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I think I've seen something similar when copying between afp shares too, but over ab NFS mount, the default is to preserve the uid and gid of files. So if a user is uid 503 on the server, the user with that ID on the local machine owns the file. If there is no user 503 on the local machine then no one owns it.
The reason that adding admin read/write priveledges doesn't work(I think) is that when adding new users, the get info panel adds ACLs, which doesn't change the fact that the file doesn't have an owner. Of course, that shouldn't matter, so it's probably a bug, but..
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
Mac Spotlight Not Finding Spotify Password
To find files with no owner or no group assigned, fire up the terminal and type or paste in
find -x (folder name) ( -nouser -or -nogroup ) -print Replace (folder name) with the path to the folder you want to search. Searching your entire hard drive can take a while.
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
Using the 'find' terminal cmd is IMO the worst way to perform file searches.
I recommend use a GUI tool such as EasyFind or Find Any File. Both not only present the results much better than 'find' can, but also are much faster when you search the entire disk because they use advanced search functions ('CatalogSearch') that 'find' doesn't. The latter app (FAF, which is my app, BTW) even lets you perform the search as root user, making it find even those items that have the permissions set like the hints author mentioned.
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
The beauty of the 'find command' is that you can use -delete as the last argument (instead of -print) & it will removed the offending files.
You can also get even more power by using the -exec argument to process the files with other commands, so you could 'chown myusername' the found files & chmod the correct read/write/execute attributes. When issues like this are caused by network shares you may need to fix the files on many machines - a one line 'find snippit' can fix them all, drop it into an automator script if non geeks need to use it. Try doing that with a GUI app.
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
A genius at an apple store prescribed the following on permissions:
When you use the Disk Utility app and Repair Permissions — it doesn’t actually repair the permission settings on folders and files in your Home folder where your documents and personal applications reside. In Lion, there is an additional Repair Permissions application utility hidden away. This tool is located inside boot Repair Utilities. Here’s how to access it. 1 Restart Lion and hold down the Command and R keys. 2 You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen. On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal. 3 In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return. 4 The Password reset utility launches, but you’re not going to reset the password. Instead, click on the icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top. From the drop-down below it, select the user account where you are having issues. 5 At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled 'Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs'. Click the Reset button there. The reset process takes a couple of minutes. When it’s done, quit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac. Notice that 'Spotlight' starts re-indexing immediately.
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
Repairing USER permissions using the Lion Recovery partition fixed all my Spotlight problems. Also seemed to fix my Finder View Options randomly not sticking. I did before and after on a few directories in the terminal, and have no idea how my USER permissions were so messed up. Now I wonder if this shouldn't be part of a major system update, or user account migration.
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
It didn't work for me, Spotlight didn't automatically start re-indexing after restart. Any further suggestions?
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
If Spotlight does not find a file or a file's contents
I would hope that everyone realizes that Spotlight really can't find any file on your disk — there are only certain folders that Spotlight does and can scan/search. It seems that there's no way to get Spotlight to scan/search the entire boot/system disk as there are areas (such as the system area) it won't seem to scan ('though I haven't tried this with 10.7, having given up on Spotlight 'way back when').
If you want to find files and/or content anywhere on your disk, you can use the following free applications (ask Mr. Google where to find 'em)
Neither of the above utilities use any kind of indexing (well, other than the disks filesystem services) so they're always up-to-date, don't consume resources for scanning and don't get corrupted .. i.e., although a little slower, they're reliable and search anywhere on your disk.
At least we no longer see Apple's web pages making the 'find any file on your disk' claim. <sigh>
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