Timeline for How do I rebuild the Spotlight index
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 10:21 | comment | added | carlcaulkett | I'm getting "Spotlight server is disabled."! | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 2:34 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ |
Thanks for the update. Can you go into Terminal and run the following command: sudo mdutil -pEsav. This should return one of two messages: "Indexing enabled" or "datastore publishing not implemented". What do you get? Note also, that if you have more than one volume mounted, you'll get a message for each volume!
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| Jun 21, 2018 at 12:01 | comment | added | carlcaulkett | I deleted that file. I then ran the 3 commands again. macOS is still resolutely insisting that the "Spotlight server is disabled". In any case, I've switched to Quicksilver for my indexing needs and that software predates Spotlight and so uses its own indexing mechanism. | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 11:50 | comment | added | carlcaulkett |
Thanks, @Monomeeth. I did a search with the excellent Find Any File and I found 3 occurrences: ~/Library/Application Support/Output Hub/* ` ~/Library/Google/Chrome/*` and /.cleverfiles/*. I suspect the last one is the item of interest especially as its timestamp indicates it was changed yesterday. It does have a size of 0 bytes, though!
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| Jun 21, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | carlcaulkett |
Thanks, @Monomeeth. I did a search with the excellent Find Any File and I found 3 occurences:
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 22:42 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | I've just updated my answer with some additional troubleshooting steps. Hopefully this resolves your issue. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 22:41 | history | edited | Monomeeth♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added update with further troubleshooting steps.
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 9:37 | comment | added | carlcaulkett |
I've also tried deleting the /.Spotlight-V100 folder. When I carry out the mdutil commands, I see that this folder is recreated albeit with very small files inside.
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 8:38 | comment | added | carlcaulkett |
I also tried running them as root, following a sudo su. That didn't work either.
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 8:33 | comment | added | carlcaulkett | I typed in each of these commands. The response for each one was: "Spotlight server is disabled." | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 2:33 | history | answered | Monomeeth♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |