Timeline for Spotlight reports "Indexing and searching disabled" in Lion
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
11 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9 at 22:46 | comment | added | dstonek | Monterey, I only needed the last to lines (mdutil off/on) to get indexed one of my external disks that it would not despite all sort of differnet attempts I've done | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 16:48 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Nov 17, 2017 at 20:01 | |||||
| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:58 | comment | added | Søren Spelling Lund | Worked for me. This was on an almost clean macOS installation. Funny it broke so fast. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 2:44 | comment | added | nmgeek |
For me mdutil -i on / did not enable indexing at first but it was enabled after I rebooted.
|
|
| Oct 27, 2011 at 21:13 | comment | added | orome | @maggix: I'd tried that too (good suggestion), but it also fails. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 7:07 | comment | added | maggix | Try with sudo rm , I edited my above post | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 7:06 | history | edited | maggix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 5 characters in body
|
| Oct 27, 2011 at 2:34 | comment | added | orome |
@lemonginger: Step 2,rm -rf /.Spotlight*, fails with "permission denied". I'm stuck.
|
|
| Sep 7, 2011 at 21:29 | comment | added | lemonginger | I know it has something to do with the MDS error messages in the log (mds: (Error) Server: Disabled store registered for scope XXXX) but I don't know why/how those are disabled | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 21:28 | comment | added | lemonginger | No, when I try that on any Volume or subset of a Volume I get the following, as mentioned Indexing and searching disabled. | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 21:05 | history | answered | maggix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |