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I’ve come across this one on multiple client machines this month.<\/p>\nI’ve come across this one on multiple client machines this month.<\/p>\n
The symptom is simple: you invoke Spotlight (via the magnifying glass icon or command-space), and maybe four times out of five, within a second or so, no matter what you do, Spotlight crashes. You get a screen full of dump information with a button “Send to Apple.” If you type very quickly, you may be able to type your query, hit return, and even have it processed before the crash screen comes up.<\/p>\n
This one is maddening, and plagued me for over a month before I found the simple solution.<\/p>\n
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Go to System Preferences \/ Spotlight, the Search Results tab. Uncheck the “Bookmarks & History” box.<\/p>\n
That’s it.<\/p>\n
Apparently, it’s common for something to crawl into one’s bookmarks or history that just flat crashes Spotlight. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I can live with having Spotlight not find things in there if they’re going to be more trouble than they’re worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve come across this one on multiple client machines this month. The symptom is simple: you invoke Spotlight (via the magnifying glass icon or command-space), and maybe four times out of five, within a second or so, no matter what you do, Spotlight crashes. You get a screen full of dump information with a button … Continue reading Spotlight crash fix<\/span>