content: 2026-07-20 capture run — 35 finds across 17 productive sources

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+name: "SpotTest"
+subtitle: "A drag-and-drop diagnostic for why Spotlight can't find a file"
+date: 2026-07-20
+link: "https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/"
+linkText: "eclecticlight.co"
+source: "The Eclectic Light Company"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [spotlight, diagnostics, free, utility]
+description: "A free macOS utility that generates crafted test files to probe Spotlight indexing and search, from a developer who has documented most of Spotlight's known bugs."
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+SpotTest builds a folder of deliberately crafted test files, then runs both NSMetadata and `mdfind` searches against them to show exactly where Spotlight's indexing breaks down. Its 1.3 update adds a drop window that reports what the command-line tool `file(1)` thinks a file actually is, set beside what Spotlight's own importers decided, useful for the exact moment a document goes missing from search for no visible reason. Free, from the developer behind most of Spotlight's documented bug reports.