[Bug] ApplicationSearch does not work

[Berrserker]

Versions Ueli 9.6.0 Electron 32.1.0 Node.js 20.17.0 V8 12.8.374.26-electron.0

update from 8.29 -> 9.4 -> 9.6.1 app search on 9.* does not working, rescan and folders dont help

[Berrserker]

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[oliverschwendener]

Can you show me your application search settings? You can find them in "Settings" => "Application Search"

[Berrserker]

[oliverschwendener]

I assume you're using macOS?

[Berrserker]

yea

[Berrserker]

thats i tried:

• fix path to scan
• rescan
• check macos spotlight indexes
• reset to default
• reinstall ueli
• appcleaner delete and install macos 15.0.1 (24A348)

[mw-mcw]

Hey there!

Same here Upgrade from 8.29 -> 9.7., on MacOS 14.7. My log is also empty. Thanks for any advice.

[oliverschwendener]

What happens if you add the following folder path to the application search settings: /System/Applications?

[mw-mcw]

Unfortunately this didn't do the trick. I added the following paths from the 8.29 version.

• /Applications
• /System/Library/CoreServices
• /Users/<user>/Applications
• /System/Applications
• /Users/<user>/bin/JDownloader 2.0

[oliverschwendener]

Does it help if you remove the cache folder?

$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/ueli

[Berrserker]

Does it help if you remove the cache folder?

$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/ueli

didnot effect and .. clear all my configs, but it doesnot help to find apps

[Berrserker]

think itis a last macos problem? maybe some settings rules need

[oliverschwendener]

Did you disable the spotlight search?

[mw-mcw]

Does it help if you remove the cache folder?

$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/ueli

didnot effect and .. clear all my configs, but it doesnot help to find apps

Same on my system (14.7.). Unfortunately: no effect. With ueli 8.29 the app search feature worked totally fine. I also thought about maybe permissions-issues or something like that.

spotlight search is active on my system.

[Berrserker]

my spotlight is active to programs, system preferences, folders and docs, its works fine - so i sure that apple indexmashine is working ok

[Berrserker]

try use simple file search from - https://github.com/oliverschwendener/ueli/issues/1030 - doesnot work too

[oliverschwendener]

What output do you get when you execute this in your terminal?

$ mdfind "kMDItemKind == 'Application'"

[Berrserker]

[mw-mcw]

try use simple file search from - #1030 - doesnot work too

this helped me as a workaround for the meantime. thanks for the hint!

$ mdfind "kMDItemKind == 'Application'"

did just output nothing on my machine:

I don't want to unnecessarily spam or hijack this issue. Should I open another one in my case?

[oliverschwendener]

That seems to be the problem, you should be able to find all apps with this.

Can you try the following commands and check if you get any output?

$ mdfind "kMDItemKind == Application"

or

$ mdfind "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle'"

[mw-mcw]

mdfind "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle'"

this one lists all of my apps. the command above will also output nothing.

[Berrserker]

$ mdfind "kMDItemKind == Application" > nothing $ mdfind "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle'" > ...(app list) /Applications/Safari.app /Applications/Vivaldi.app /Applications/Warp.app /Applications/Tower.app /Applications/Maccy.app /Applications/Telegram.app /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app /Applications/Ueli.app /Applications/GoLand.app /Applications/DataGrip.app /Applications/Rambox.app /System/Applications/Music.app ...

[oliverschwendener]

Thanks guys for your responses. I don't understand spotlight enough to understand what's better to use. Maybe the best option for now is adding an option in the settings that you can easly switch between between these commands. I'll keep you updated.

[oliverschwendener]

The next update will include an option to select one of the following filtering methods, which should solve the problem:

[erhanbicer]

Recently, I updated my macOS to version 15.1. After the update, even Spotlight couldn't find applications like Notion, WebStorm, etc. After running the commands below, both Spotlight and Ueli's application search started working again. @oliverschwendener

Step 1

sudo mdutil -a -i off

Step 2

sudo mdutil -a -i on