Search not working in Day One for Mac
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When I try to do a search in Day One on my MacBook Pro on Ventura 13.4.1, the search box comes up but search does nothing after I hit enter. I’m able to search okay in the iOS apps, but not the Mac app. I’m running Day One version 2023.14 (1494).
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Hello! We’ll do our best to help. May we have you try the following?
- Quit Day One Mac
- Paste the following file path in Go to Folder in Finder: ~/Library/Containers/com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac/Data/Library/Application Support/indexes/fts.db
- Drag that file to the trash
- Re-launch Day One.
- See if the search ability has returned.
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Hello,
I have the same issue, 2 years later. All up to date, last MacOS version, last Day One version. (Just updated: so, the previous one wasn’t working too.)
It always worked, but I don’t know when it stopped working for me (not using it every day). I found the new folder for Day One, respect to 2023, but its structure is different.
Could you please help? I already tried all the standard actions.
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Sorry, I forgot to report it: yes, but…
First, if I should have that path and file on my Mac, I don’t.
Second, I tried to find out something compatible in my entire Mac harddisk, because—I thought—after 2 years maybe the Day One backend has changed. I searched for the “com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac”, found some of them, but… nothing that can correspond to the original support on this topic.
So, I didn’t removed anything, and I couldn’t solve it following this instructions.
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On my Mac, the full path is:
/Users/my-username/Library/Containers/com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac/Data/Library/Application Support/indexes/fts.dbDo you have the folder, but not the file? If not, which folder are you missing?
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I don’t have the “com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac”
I have the “com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac-agent”
Let’s say that’s fine. If I search inside, trying to follow the following part of your path, I stop at ‘Application Support’, which doesn’t have the folder ‘indexes’ inside. That’s my path:
‘/Users/andrea_1/Library/Containers/com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac-agent/Data/Library/Application Support’ -
@negr0re Right,
com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac-agentis not the right location.If you’re navigating manually in Finder, the
com.bloombuilt.dayone-macfolder may just display asDay One, i.e./Users/my-username/Library/Containers/Day One/Data/Library/Application Support/indexes/fts.dbDo you see that?
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That’s it!
The strange thing is that I have two “Day One” folders on this path /Users/my-username/Library/Containers/. So, I simply deleted both “fts.db”. No issues reopening Day One, search function actually searching.
Many thanks, Donnie!
Note: Maybe the issue is due to having changed my Mac lately and it created a duplicate in the passage. So, nothing coming from you. Just FYI.
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Hi @negr0re – Glad to hear you got it working again!
The duplicate could be left over from a previous install, or it could be an alias for the Safari extension or the Share extension. If you right click the folder and select “Get Info”, you’ll see the full folder name under “Name and Extension”
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I leave here this information for whomever might be interested in the future.
On this path, “/Users/my-username/Library/Containers/” I have the following folders:
• The Safari extension folder, clearly named “Day One Safari Extension”.
• The actual desktop app folder, named “Day One”. It’s recognizable because the folder icon has the “Day One” icon on top.
• The Share extension folder, named “Day One” and that with the “Get Info” shows the following information in the field “Name & Extension”: “com.bloombuilt.dayone-mac.Day-One-Share-Extension”
Again thanks, Donnie!
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