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User profile for user: umparrothead
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Calendar Search Broken on New Computer/Old Account

Upon migrating from an older Mac to an M1, both running Monterey, my Calendar search no longer works. In other words, it works, but only finds items added since I've been using the new computer. It won't find any events which were added on the old computer or simply before the new computer was set up (even if they're literally on the same day).


I found some other users on here sharing the same issue, so it's not just me, however, they didn't find any solution.


All calendars are through iCloud. Tried all the basic troubleshooting with no change. Also updated to the latest 12.5.1 OS today.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Aug 17, 2022 3:08 PM

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User profile for user: Bill_T1
Bill_T1
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Posted on Aug 18, 2022 5:08 PM

Hi umparrothead,


If a search is not returning expected or correct results, rebuilding the Spotlight index may address that. Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac covers the process as:


Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.
From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

Regards.

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User profile for user: Bill_T1
Bill_T1
User level: Community Specialist

Aug 18, 2022 5:08 PM in response to umparrothead

Hi umparrothead,


If a search is not returning expected or correct results, rebuilding the Spotlight index may address that. Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac covers the process as:


Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.
From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

Regards.

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Calendar Search Broken on New Computer/Old Account

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