PS 3: If you realize the spotlight is not searching how should be, it is a signal that above procedure should be executed. PS 2: Sorry, I do not remember where I learned it, but, in the worst case, you will lose a bit of time while OS X rebuilds the file indexes to improve spotlight search.

Now, click in a disk you just added, and remove it (using the '-' button). I did it on my own, just to make sure).Īfter the reboot, go back to system 'System Preferences' -> 'Spotlight', then, 'Privacy'.

Reboot your Mac (when I learned about it, this step was not mentioned. So, to fix this, go to 'System Preferences' -> 'Spotlight', then, 'Privacy'.Ĭlick on the '+' button, and add the disk which contains the 'wrong sized folder'. The only matter is the problem may keep showing itself up. So, I could not (yet) figure out why it happens, but, I could find out how to fix it. Many times I got the message 'Startup Disk is almost full'.įinder was showing 37 GB in that folder, but, checking each subfolder individually, the size of all was like 10 GB smaller. Well, I had similar issue in my Download folder.