I have a mac with MacOs 26.4 and NC Client 33.0.0
It seems that spotlight is not indexing all files in my local spotlight folder, a long search with Claude lead to:
“Nextcloud 3.x blocks the FSEvents notifications for its sync folder, so Spotlight never automatically learns that files exist there or have changed.”
It worked after using
" mdimport -i ~/MyNextcloud"
but it would be helpful it this could be fixed…
Did you activate Virtual Files or ‘Classic’ sync? Spotlight cannot index Nextcloud files only available as VFS (yet), see: Spotlight Support (NSFileProviderSearching) · Issue #9351 · nextcloud/desktop · GitHub
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Based on your message, I assume you are using the classic synchronization with a synchronization folder located at ~/Nextcloud.
I quickly checked your claim but failed to reproduce the issue. I have also set up a classic synchronization at ~/Nextcloud and when I search (in example) for “Templates credits.md” (part of file name) in Finder in my home folder, then I get results. I also asked Claude to double check but it could not determine any cause that might block indexing by Spotlight.
Did you check “System Settings” → “Siri & Spotlight” → “Spotlight Privacy” to see if the folder was added there?
- Virtual files => not activated
- I have actually 3 different Nextclouds and the folders are e.g. in
user/robert/Nextcloud-wechangewhich is referring to my wechange Nextcloud, so they have individual names. - I checked Spotlight Privacy => no folders there
Very strange…