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I narrowed the scope of Spotlight to just Applications and System Preferences, but the indexing is still taking seemingly forever and not just after restart. Any idea what could be going on? I know I can stop it by removing my disk from scope, but I'm looking for a middle ground.

Here are the results of mdutil -sav:

/:
    Indexing enabled.
/System/Volumes/Data:
    Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/GoogleDrive:
    Indexing and searching disabled.
    enter code here
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    I have no evidence to back this up, but it wouldn't surprise me if it still indexed everything, but just restricted the results it shows.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 24, 2022 at 18:13
  • Can you show the output from the Terminal command mdutil -sav.
    – Gilby
    Commented Aug 24, 2022 at 22:55
  • @Gilby See updated question.
    – Peter Alfvin
    Commented Aug 24, 2022 at 23:41
  • Look good for first two volumes, except: with the v in mdutil -sav, there should be (for each volume) a 3rd line saying about 'Scan base time'. The lack of that suggests that the indexing has not completed. But I guess you know that. I am bit worried about the 'enter code here' - I have never seen that before. Maybe @Tetsujin knows.
    – Gilby
    Commented Aug 24, 2022 at 23:48

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