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Reset Spotlight Location (Fix for OS X 10.11 El Capitan)
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Installation for GUI Users

  1. Right click the file and choose information and choose to always open this file with Terminal.app

  2. Go to the Terminal.app and do something like this chmod 744 Reset Spotlight.sh

  3. There you go, you can now double click it so reset the Spotlight location

  4. Optional: Uncomment line for the useCount to prevent Spotlight to forget that you already used it

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Reset Spotlight.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Delete all information saved by Spotlight
defaults delete com.apple.Spotlight
# Restart Spotlight
killall Spotlight
# Uncomment to prevent Spotlight to always introduce itself as new
# defaults write com.apple.Spotlight useCount 5
exit 0
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joeljuca commented Jun 8, 2018

Wow! It was really helpful! Thanks a lot! <3

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