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Hey folks, bit of a weird one, the file search in Dreamweaver 2017.1 has stopped working - see image below. Anyone else experiencing this or know a fix?

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Niharika JhaCorrect answer

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Hi,

Live Search uses the Spotlight API in Mac OS. Any customization that you apply to Spotlight preferences is also used for Live Search. Spotlight displays all files on your computer that match your search query.

Can you please check Spotlight settings or send us a screenshot of that so that we can help you better.

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Niharika Gupta

Adobe Dreamweaver

Niharika JhaCorrect answer

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Hi,

Live Search uses the Spotlight API in Mac OS. Any customization that you apply to Spotlight preferences is also used for Live Search. Spotlight displays all files on your computer that match your search query.

Can you please check Spotlight settings or send us a screenshot of that so that we can help you better.

Regards,

Niharika Gupta

Adobe Dreamweaver

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creativedigitalnzAuthor

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Embarassingly... it was a computer restart that fixed it. It must have indeed been spotlight that had stopped working.

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Nancy OShea

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Do you have WordPress defined in a local testing server?

And your testing server is running normally?

Nancy

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creativedigitalnzAuthor

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To be fair, I have never setup test servers. My dev environment is Dreamweaver and Mamp. I usually setup a new host in Mamp and that is all I need? The search has always worked... it literally just seems to have stopped in the past week or so.

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Nancy OShea

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MAMP is a local testing environment for working with PHP & MySQL data.

Is MAMP working & are all Apache and PHP processes operating as they should?

Without more to go on, I don't know why File Search would suddenly stop working unless something else in the chain is broken.

Nancy

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Preran

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Can you try restoring preferences and see if that helps?

Unusual behavior in Dreamweaver? Try restoring preferences.

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creativedigitalnzAuthor

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No that has not worked unfortunately. Have also made sure I have latest build from CC.

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