BE Spotlight (Attachments) search hanging-freezing
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:58 am
I have been having problems with spotlight (Attachments) searches. I read in the manual that they are not live searches because they are too slow.
1. Not live: Yet precisely my problem curiously seems as if it were related to a slow live search, i.e., as I try to type the word it doesn't allow me to finish but after a few letters it hangs (as if it were already searching for the word without me hitting return)?
2. Slow: Well, I don't know how slow you understand this to be. It seems crazy that it should take up to 2 minutes to search a word. I explain. Of my various tries, one time BE allowed me to finish the word (or after hanging, finally finished writing out the word...can't remember exactly) and after something like 2 minutes it finally returned the results. Surely you don't have in mind that it be that slow...? Anyway, once it returned the results, navigating to different folders etc. was painstakingly slow.
In short, Spotlight doesn't work for me.
I downloaded latest update and rebuilt my library.
I relatively new at this. In the past weeks I have had other experiences with BE Spotlight. Sometimes I was getting the search error warnings attached. But despite the warnings, the search seemingly worked, so I ignored it. Then on a few other occasions the spotlight search worked as one would expect.
But now I am stumped and it is not working at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
1. Not live: Yet precisely my problem curiously seems as if it were related to a slow live search, i.e., as I try to type the word it doesn't allow me to finish but after a few letters it hangs (as if it were already searching for the word without me hitting return)?
2. Slow: Well, I don't know how slow you understand this to be. It seems crazy that it should take up to 2 minutes to search a word. I explain. Of my various tries, one time BE allowed me to finish the word (or after hanging, finally finished writing out the word...can't remember exactly) and after something like 2 minutes it finally returned the results. Surely you don't have in mind that it be that slow...? Anyway, once it returned the results, navigating to different folders etc. was painstakingly slow.
In short, Spotlight doesn't work for me.
I downloaded latest update and rebuilt my library.
I relatively new at this. In the past weeks I have had other experiences with BE Spotlight. Sometimes I was getting the search error warnings attached. But despite the warnings, the search seemingly worked, so I ignored it. Then on a few other occasions the spotlight search worked as one would expect.
But now I am stumped and it is not working at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.