Siri does not find the files on my external drives

Hiya:

Just updated to Sierra of MacOS and I try to use Siri to search for files on my computer and as the title suggests, Siri spitting not files on my external drives (both connected via USB 3 on the back of the iMac). I tried to turn on Siri/off, Spotlight is not all excluded files, I tried signing in/out of my iCloud account. I tried to create a new user account on my Mac (which will not find anything). Permissions on my external hard drive seem ok: read/write is enabled for me, all the world and admin; "ignore permissions" is turned on.

I'm starting to think that this is a design limitation of the software. Someone else using Siri able to search for files on your external hard drives?

As near as I can tell, unlike the Finder and Spotlight, search Siri does not check for external drives.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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