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No Virtual Machine apps in Spotlight search on MacOS

September 4, 2018 By Bobby Voicu

One thing that annoys me on my Mac is the fact that apps from the Virtual Machines I use appear in Spotlight search. The issue appears when I have the same app on multiple operating systems: MacOS and Windows, let’s say. You search for Chrome, hit enter aaaaand… you start opening the Windows 7 virtual machine, instead of the MacOS Chrome app. I’ve found the solution today:

2. If you want keep Windows apps integrated but removed from Spotlight only. This changes from version to version of Parallels, but for version 7 do this. System Preferences –> Spotlight –> Privacy tab. Hit the + sign. Add the folder “Applications (Parallels).”

From here.

And yes, I’ve created this post just so I have the information at hand when, without a doubt, I forget how to do it again.

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