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Right click the file and choose information and choose to always open this file with
Terminal.app
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Go to the
Terminal.app
and do something like thischmod 744 Reset Spotlight.sh
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There you go, you can now double click it so reset the Spotlight location
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Optional: Uncomment line for the
useCount
to prevent Spotlight to forget that you already used it
Created
June 30, 2015 13:30
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Reset Spotlight Location (Fix for OS X 10.11 El Capitan)
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#!/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 |
Wow! @superpixel, that's awesome.
You can just move it with your cursor…
Thank you @einfallstoll for writing this, and @YuriEnrico for noticing you can move it with the cursor (given the lack of visual affordances, I'd never think it would me movable) 😄
Wow! It was really helpful! Thanks a lot! <3
This is working wonderfully as of 14.4.1 (23E224)
:)
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Just hold down on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar and the position of the window will reset to its default location after 2 seconds.