The Spotlight search in your Mac offers a quick way to find files; however, there may be times when even though Spotlight shows search results, it does not update so new files you add to your system are not included. There are several reasons why this may happen, including a damaged Spotlight index, in which case forcing OS X to rebuild your index is the easiest solution; however, there may be instances where even upon rebuilding, you only get a small subset of expected files in a search result. Continue reading →