Hi Barry, > On 24 Mar 2016, at 2:03 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni > > I think there should have been enough time for spotlight but how does one > tell?
It can take over an hour or more, depending on what is on the drive & its speed -- SSD's should take considerably less time to be indexed than mechanical drives, particularly large ones with a lot of document files on them. I reindexed the mechanical startup drive on a client's iMac some time ago to fix a different issue & according to system.log it took nearly two hours to complete. Activity Monitor - CPU - mdworker will sometimes cause your Mac to be slow and have high CPU usage, this is totally normal. mdworker is basically the core technology behind Mac OS X’s awesome search engine Spotlight, it spiders meta data from your Mac and its files and creates a readable index so that you can find things practically instantaneously via Spotlight (command-spacebar). > > I will try your suggestions regarding the finder when I get back to the iMac, > but regardless shouldn’t applications start either from the dock or > launchpad even if they are not appearing in the finder, Not if Spotlight was still indexing the HD > that is if they still exist! Post back if Applications are still not showing in Applications and I’ll give you further instructions to reset the "Launch Services database” Cheers, Ronni > > Barry >> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:43 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com >> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Barry, >> >> After the update installation completed and you logged in, did you allow >> time for Spotlight to reindex the HD? >> And also run Software Update and install any updates that showed? >> >> You could try open: >> Finder > Preferences, select the Sidebar button at the top and deselect >> 'Applications' from the Show these items in the sidebar section - then >> reselect it. >> That may help. >> >> If it doesn't help, open a new Finder window and go to the top level of your >> HD (Macintosh HD?) >> You should see the Applications folder there so just drag it to where it >> used to be in the sidebar. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> El Capitan OS X 10.11.4 >> >> >>> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:28 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au >>> <mailto:bjsexst...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: >>> >>> There now appears to be some further action in Finder as the “gear wheel” >>> in the bottom right is spinning but only two item appear “mail” which does >>> not open and a folder labelled “utilities”. >>>> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:18 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com >>>> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Barry, >>>> >>>> Have you tried restarting your Mac? >>>> >>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>>> >>>> >>>> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:04 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au >>>> <mailto:bjsexst...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have just updated my iMac to 10.11.4 via the App Store. All appeared >>>>> to go normally until I tried to open Safari from the dock after the >>>>> update when I got the message “Safari cannot be opened as the application >>>>> may be damaged or incomplete” The same problem occurs with all the other >>>>> applications I have tried. I then tried to open applications from the >>>>> finder but the applications do not show in the finder. >>>>> I have a couple of questions as regards this problem. >>>>> 1. Has any-one any idea why this has happened? >>>>> 2. Is there any way to recover the applications apart from restoring from >>>>> backup either time machine or CCC backup? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Barry >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> iMac Retina 5K 27" >>>>> Intel i% >>>>> 24GB RAM >>>>> 1.0 TB HD >>>>> OS X 10.11.4 ? >> Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage El Capitan OS X 10.11.4
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