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| MAC spotlight issues fix |
How to fix MAC OSX Spotlight indexing issues: Leopard, Mavericks, un tested on Yosemite.
- Please leave a comment below if this resolves your issue on Yosemite!
Spotlight “Indexing and searching disabled.” message in terminal on OSX
- “Spot light doesn't pull anything up”
Fix:
- Show hidden folders.
o Open Terminal (Go > Utilities > Terminal)
o Type the command: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes\
o Enter the local MAC Admin password (Usually the users password)
- Open Mac HDD (Go > Computer > Local HDD)
o Locate the file called: .metadataneverindex and move it to trash (Right click > Move to trash)
- Go back to terminal and run the following command
o Sudo mdutil –I on /
- Spot light should be indexing now, if there are any further indexing try to rebuild:
o sudo mdutil -i off /
o sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
o sudo mdutil -i on /
o sudo mdutil -E /
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