10.4: One solution for a broken Spotlight menu

Dec 04, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: sd

My Spotlight menu was refusing to drop down -- clicking on the blue Spotlight icon on the right side of the menubar was not showing the mini Spotlight textbox at all. I tried trashing the Spotlight preferences file, but that was useless. However, using Onyx to clean the fonts cache was the solution -- after I did that, the Spotlight drop-down returned to life.

[robg adds: You can clean these caches yourself, though a tool like Onyx makes it much simpler. To clean by hand, remove the entries in the com.apple.ATS folder within the top-level Library -> Caches folder. I tested removing these myself to make sure nothing bad happened, and so far, nothing has.]

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