Reenabling the Spotlight Menubar item in Mac OS X 10.6
- by Tim Visher
I believe I followed the instructions here to disable Spotlight indexing and remove the menubar item.
I reenabled indexing just fine, but when I changed the permissions back to 744, the spotlight search position came back (as in the space it would normally occupy), but the actual icon and search box will not show up. If I click that portion of the screen I get a blue box, but I can't type anything in to anything.
Currently, permissions look like this:
[~]$ ll /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle.bak/Contents/MacOS/
total 648
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 835K Sep 17 14:48 Search*
ll is an alias mapped to the following
alias ll='${LS_PREAMBLE} -hl'
with $LS_PREAMBLE
[~]$ echo $LS_PREAMBLE
ls -GF
(Ignore the .bak extension. I decided that until I found a way to fully restore it, I would just remove it entirely following the directions here)
That looks right to me and obviously something is launching, but the UI elements aren't there.
So how can I restore it?
Thanks in advance!
