Spotlight Twice

Hey guys, this is M.

On today, I'm going to be teaching you how to open two Spotlights at once. Now, this might come as a shock to you because you might not notice, but in the top right-hand corner of your screen, there's a little Spotlight icon. If you just search here, search results will come up, and there's always one here. You just probably assume that it was built at to Finder, whatever application this bar is, and you probably just figured, "Ah, it's always going to be one there." Well, it's not.

I'm going to teach you how to open multiple Spotlights at once. First of all, you want to open a new Finder window, then go up to Go, go to Folder, and type /System/Library/CoreServices. I will have this in the description of the video, thank you very much. Now, you want to find Spotlight right here; there's a lot of good stuff in here. Now, you want to make a copy of that and paste it onto your desktop right here. Okay, so now I'm copying Spotlight over, and there we go.

So now, if I open this up, a second Spotlight will come up in my thing. What if it doesn't? Or what if you want to run multiple Spotlights, like three or four? You just right-click on Spotlight, by Golden Control clicking, click "Show Package Contents," then select Contents, Mac OS. Then you make a copy of Spotlight, paste it, and call this Search Light. It doesn't actually matter what you call this. Then, if you open this, a terminal window will open; there will be a third Spotlight.

I'll just quit it. So now, say you want to run a fourth Spotlight; just make another copy with a totally different name and run that. Okay, so now say you want to close that, you just want to click on one of the Spotlights and type "Activity Monitor." When it comes up, select it, and now from here, you want to select Process Name and go down to Spotlight. Now, just kill one of them by double-clicking it. Click "Quit," then select "Quit."

So now I've quit one of them, I'll just quit this other one too. Okay, but now, unfortunately, I have… okay, so I, I, I had the one on the right quit, so this is the left for a little bit. So now, here's the Spotlight app on my desktop; I can just delete it.

So that's how to open multiple Spotlights at once. Thank you for watching. Maads one, please subscribe to our videos, and goodbye.