I am on Sequoia, and I’ve began getting fully unuasble outcomes from Finder search. I do a search and I get what appear to be, based mostly on the file names, the outcomes I am on the lookout for. However these outcomes hyperlink to completely totally different recordsdata.
For instance, as an example I seek for my house tackle. The outcomes embody a file referred to as Mortgage.pdf, which is documentation from my mortgage. Sounds good. however when I attempt to open the file, it as a substitute opens an image of my cats referred to as cats.jpg. If I take a look at the outcomes extra fastidiously, the trail I see is one thing like /MyDrive/Pictures/Kitties/Mortgage.pdf. That is not the place Mortgage.pdf is situated. If, within the search outcomes, I inform it to indicate the file Mortgage.pdf in its enclosing folder, it opens the folder /MyDrive/Pictures/Kitties and highlights the file cats.jpg (the identical one which opens once I double-click Mortgage.pdf within the search outcomes). So the place is the file Mortgage.pdf really situated? Hopefully I keep in mind the place I put it, as a result of search will not inform me.
Along with that, I additionally get outcomes with only a query mark as a reputation, and I get file names that do not present a path. If I double-click on one of many ones that do not present a path, I get a message saying that the unique of the alias cannot be discovered.
I’ve tried rebuilding the index a number of instances, however I get the identical dangerous outcomes after the index will get rebuilt. I’ve tried operating Disk Utility’s First Support on the disk, however it hasn’t discovered any issues.
Every other strategies? At this level, search is completely damaged, and I am at a loss for repair it.