spotlight index

Recently searched for a file known to be in ~/Library/Preferences/ (while in OS 10.15), and got no results. Same in 10.11. (But worked in 10.6.) Files within other "system" folders can be located, and results were always set to "include System Files" and "Visible OR Invisible" and standard...

Hi, so my mom reinstalled macOS Ventura 13.5 on our iMac, Finder & Spotlight are returning search results on our iMac hard drive, but now are not returning any search results on our external hard drive, even though it was before the re-installation... I tried adding & removing both the iMac HD...

Guys, I need help! I was getting repeated crashes of suggestd, and the web suggested rebuilding Spotlight indexes with mdutil. Now my Spotlight index is gone and I can't get it back :-( I booted in recovery mode and said $ sudo mdutil -E / /: 2022-04-28 01:50:02.085 mdutil[683:10921] mdutil...

I understand this issue has been discussed numerous times since the introduction of Mac Big Sur. I have searched these forums and others, and have yet to find someone who was unable to find a "fix." After upgrading to Big Sur 11.4 yesterday, the search feature for Mail no longer works. I have...

Hi I have a newish 10 Tb WD Elements external desktop HD. It has been in use less than 2 weeks and isn't always on. I have filled about 3 Tb of it. I had it on for a few hours yesterday and was surprised that the light was still blinking and there were occasional sounds from it when not in use...

Hi I have a newish 10 Tb WD Elements external desktop HD. It has been in use less than 2 weeks and isn't always on. I have filled about 3 Tb of it. I had it on for a few hours yesterday and was surprised that the light was still blinking and there were occasional sounds from it when not in use...

Hi there. So, I had an encrypted image on an external drive. For security reasons I wanted all .Trashes and caches n such gone so I just shorthand decided to delete everything besides my actual .dmg image. Turns out you kinda need some of the stuff for indexing ur device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean I...

mds_stores is hogging up GBs of memory. I guess it's related to spotlight indexing. With every boot, mds_stores just stat up and eat up RAM. Doesn't happen when I keep spotlight turned of via terminal. How do I stop this without turning off spotlight? Already tried creating new index via Onyx...

There is a bug in Sierra but might be all MacOS where some process keeps deleting my Spotlight index file. tens of thousands of file that get indexed and it uses a lot of battery when I'm mobile. I can't use the laptop because I can't rely on it keeping the index. If I turn the indexing off...