Spotlight indexing overrides Terminal.app

[franky47]

Please check everything that applies to your issue:

• [x] I looked in closed issues and it has not already been answered
• [ ] My issue appeared with a terminal-notifier update
• [x] I'm using a tool that uses terminal-notifier (guard-notifier, node-notifier...)

To help us debug your issue please include:

• macOS version: 10.14.2
• terminal-notifier version: 1.7.2
• how did you install terminal-notifier: node_module dependency

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For some reason, when typing "T" to open a Terminal, my Spotlight results prioritizes terminal-notifier.app that are installed in all the node_modules (many of my web projects have an indirect dependency on it) over the Terminal.app, which I find extremely frustrating, I used to be able to quickly type cmd + space + T + return and get a Terminal window, but now I get an empty notification instead.

I know it's not related to a source code issue of this project, but does anyone have any idea on how to let Spotlight ignore the terminal-notifier apps that live in node_modules ?

[julienXX]

Have you tried to reset your Spotlight cache?

[franky47]

That seemed to do the trick for now, thanks !

[romainbessugesmeusy]

I have the same issue and reseting spotlight did not work as expected. Maybe you could add a never index metadata inside the executable directory ? http://www.filetypehelp.com/purpose-files-metadataneverindex-file-extension/