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I just came here to report the same thing. Mac Catalina 10.15.4, Safari browser.

@marianco I just tried this solution, to delete the EvernoteSpotlight.appex file. I am hopeful this takes care of the problem, as you said the Evernote solution is not permanent. It had been working fine for say the last 7-8 weeks, now the last two days I have gotten about 10 crashes again. One point - you said this provides ability to Clip Web Content to Evernote - After I deleted the .appex file, I tried using Web Clipper in Safari on a Mac and it works! Is it still in memory or something? I'll try closing and reopening Safari and see what I find. EDIT: Just closed and reopened Safari, Web Clipper/'Clip to Evernote' still works.

Well, it's back for me AGAIN. It started on Jan 22. I checked, there has been no Evernote app update, so that kills my theory it was related to upgrading the app. On the 22nd, it crashed 7 times around 8:58 AM, and the 23rd it crashed 12 times around 8:58 - 8:59 AM. It sounds like it might be tied to something happening around 9 AM? PLEASE EVERNOTE WHY CAN'T YOU FIX THIS?

@PinkElephant the fact remains the program crashes for quite a number of people, and EN has acknowledged the problem for a long time, and has yet to fix it. I appreciate your comments, but at some point people who keep claiming "the problem doesn't happen to me" are just not helpful.

I am not running the one on the App Store, at least initially. I downloaded the one from the Evernote site, every time, as I did today. The problem is, the updates through the App Store happen automatically. I guess instead of putting a good version on the App Store Evernote wants me to turn off all automatic updates on my Mac? I won't do that - why compromise the rest of my computer because Evernote won't fix this stupid bug and updates cause crashes? No wonder people are leaving for other solutions. I won't compromise the rest of my computer. Like others, I am very close to dumping Evernote. This has gone way too long. When my due date comes up from renewal, if this is not fixed, I am gone, Enough is enough.

For me, the steps to uninstall completely and reinstall work UNTIL an update comes. I have not had any crashes for weeks, an Update came through the Apple store on my Mac, and now in the last 3 days I have gotten about 10 crashes a day. I am in the process of doing the full uninstall with AppCleaner and reinstall, I am sure it will be fine until the next update Come on Evernote, fix this!!!!!

Thanks for the tip, no shots fired. I would like to see a better search tool though. With these kinds of holes it’s hardly robust and tags are not a dolution every time.

The more fundamental question is, how does one search on AT&T? Search is a pretty crucial function in Evernote, while I recognize it doesn't work now it and other examples need to be addressed.

Here's a sample from a notebook, note the search in the top right and all the results that show are wrong. This is Evernote/Mac.

Thanks. You implied this, but entitle:"AT T" doesn't work either, in fact it returns the same (largely incorrect) results.

I am doing a Note search like this --> intitle:"AT&T" (also tried intitle:AT&T), and while both return the identical results, at least 80% of the notes returned are incorrect. How would I search for note with AT&T in the title? I don't readily see a pattern - some of the titles returned: - Don’t expect to see Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro until 2021 - Wall Street won’t tell you, but U.S. stocks are underperforming - MarketWatch - NBA Daily: It Still Isn't Time To Expand The NBA | Basketball Insiders | NBA Rumors And Basketball News - I Mentored Zuckerberg, But Can't Stay Silent About Facebook - Premier League's mid-table problem is one it can't continue to ignore

Yesterday, around 7 PM local time, I did the update to 7.13. I notice in my logs this morning, not only did the 7.13 update fix anything, but the Evernote Spotlight crash happened 6 times between 10:12 PM and 10:14 PM, and I definitely wasn't even using my laptop, it was closed up for the evening! What could cause it to just be crashing on its own?

Yes, by the book, exactly per instructions. Worked fine until it didn't.

It definitely seems to keep coming up. I have undeleted it and reinstalled it twice now, it has started crashing again in the last few days. I can't believe Evernote hasn't fixed this, I first reported it on a ticket to them in JULY. I too am getting fed up with them.

I posted above that the problem came back for me too, I went through the same uninstall/reinstall and so far I have had no crashes. So it appears that something gets corrupted, for some reason, and the uninstall/reinstall fixes it (through replacement/reinitialization etc.). That sounds to me like something that needs to be fixed in software (Evernote) otherwise we will be faced with periodically having to uninstall/reinstall everything, to get a couple of months of crashless days in.

It is happening again for me too - just started on Aug 28 - 3 times. Then Aug 29 12 times, and yesterday 3 times.

It took you a few hours to do this? Wow - took me 10 minutes tops. Anyway, I am Into second day for me, no crashes yet! Be sure and do the steps exactly, including checking the extra items in the Evernote uninstall that are not selected by default when AppCleaner runs.

I heard back from support - they basically gave me detailed instructions to uninstall/reinstall Evernote to fix this problem! I was very skeptical at first and said so, they insisted to do this exactly as they instruct below. So I followed their steps EXACTLY, and guess what - I have been a full 24 hours with no crashes! I was getting 6 a day so this is very encouraging. I thought I would pass on the steps if you want to try too. I didn't want to believe it but I am very hopeful this bug is gone! From Support: I recommend you export any local notebooks and unsynced notes as a backup because they have not been synced to our server and will be unrecoverable after this procedure. For detailed instructions on exporting your notes, click here. Then follow these steps: If Evernote is running, press Command + Q to quit the Evernote application Download App Cleaner from the App Cleaner website When the download is complete: open the zip file, then open the App Cleaner app (Note - I saw no zip file, the web site lets you just download the latest .dmg file, which I did). Open the ‘Applications’ folder in your Finder and drag Evernote to the App Cleaner window. After App Cleaner searches for and lists all related files, click Remove (Note: Please scroll down the list that app cleaner finds and check every box so everything is removed.) Right-click (or Ctrl + Click) on your Mac’s Trash and select Empty Trash Reboot your computer Download and install Evernote for Mac from the Evernote website Drag the Evernote icon into your ‘Applications’ folder Open Evernote and log in to your Evernote account

I sent a support request in about 2 weeks ago, I got this reply back then: Please know that this is a known issue and we're planning to address it soon. Unfortunately, there is no workaround but Spotlight search and Evernote's performance is not affected. I just asked if there was any update. I am starting to consider my options to move to another platform and stop my subscription. This is ridiculous, on top of very little communication from Evernote. Is this the Support I pay for as a premium user? Disgraceful. There are too many other viable options these days, it's very telling when we need Evernote to fix this annoying issue they are silent.

It's very odd, I use Evernote throughout the day, and it seems I always have 6 crashes every day. I wonder if it's tied to some sort of an event, system activity, etc. that disrupts it. It's weird - ALWAYS 6 times a day.

I am still getting abut 5 EvernoteSpotloight crashes a day, I am not sure what causes it or if they are random. I wish Evernote would fix this.

Thank you. Crashed 6 times yesterday, not sure what is triggering it on my MacBook Pro. Hopefully a fix comes soon!

I watch the crashes on my MacBook Pro, and tonight I noticed lots of Evernote SPotlight crashes, when normally there are none. You can see the list of crashes in the attachment, here is a dump of the first part of the most recent crash. Any ideas what's up? I don't think I even use Evernote Spotlight.. Process: EvernoteSpotlight [7868] Path: /Applications/Evernote.app/Contents/PlugIns/EvernoteSpotlight.appex/Contents/MacOS/EvernoteSpotlight Identifier: EvernoteSpotlight Version: 7.11 (457847) App Item ID: 406056744 App External ID: 831700955 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: EvernoteSpotlight [7868] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2019-07-09 23:06:20.546 -0400 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.5 (18F203) Report Version: 12 Bridge OS Version: 3.5 (16P5200) Anonymous UUID: A68D1013-20C9-C330-DDF9-C7D9F603B44B Sleep/Wake UUID: 9C46EB4F-2645-4BEF-8317-35FDA6BEBC00 Time Awake Since Boot: 11000 seconds Time Since Wake: 110 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 1 Dispatch queue: com.apple.corespotlight.requests Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Application Specific Information: abort() called

It's what he does. Picks fights. I too will not be back, if anyone from Evernote reads this thread, I hope (a) they consider implementing notebook level encryption, the OP's suggestion, and (b) that Evernote realizes how toxic this thread become thanks to 'Gurus' who really didn't contribute anything to the original suggestion. Thanks for the help DTLow, it was truly beneficial.

Why are you in here just challenging everything everyone says? Why don't you just let posters ask for a feature and leave it at that? Off topic began when the original post was "I would like to see notebook level encryption" and you replied "Evernote data on the server is encrypted-at-rest", which was an inaccurate off topic remark , which is why I suggested some research into public-private key encryption. I am done arguing with you, since you are a "Guru" I can only assume for some reason you like to pick fights with people so I guess you win, Mr. Guru. Nice job deflecting the OP's issue. Do you you have anything to say about that other than 'everything is already encrypted'?