Homebrew-cask: About Spotlight
I opened the App are using Spotlight.
I moved /opt/homebrew-caskroom to /usr/local/caskroom，After，I rebuild the Spotlight index.
Spotlight can not search cask installed app。I tried a lot of methods are useless。
Is there any solution?
In addition to modifying caskroom
senpng
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Spotlight doesn’t index /usr/local/, that why we started using /opt in the first place. Reinstall your apps with --force and they’ll be moved (our new behaviour). Spotlight will see them then.
vitorgalvao
on 22 Jun 2016
This should be included in the README.md _for sure_.
cd-rum
on 20 Feb 2018
@cd-rum I definitely shouldn’t. Not only are there no further complaints and the behaviour isn’t the same, the issue isn’t even applicable or relevant anymore.
vitorgalvao
on 20 Feb 2018
@vitorgalvao For my clarification how is it no longer relevant? I'd all but given up on this repo solely because Spotlight couldn't find the apps it installs.
cd-rum
on 20 Feb 2018
@cd-rum Apps are moved by default directly to /Applications, as if you’d done it manually.
If they’re not or they are and Spotlight isn’t seeing them, the issue is on your side.
vitorgalvao
on 20 Feb 2018
@vitorgalvao Ah, that's fair. Thanks for the info.
cd-rum
on 20 Feb 2018
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Spotlight doesn’t index
/usr/local/, that why we started using/optin the first place. Reinstall your apps with--forceand they’ll be moved (our new behaviour). Spotlight will see them then.