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Q: Problems with spotlight search

Hey Folks!

 

I have some massive issues with the spotlight search and i have no idea what i could do to fix this.

The Problem: I can't search for files on a specific volume. The internal harddrive works just fine, aswell as some external ones in our network. However.. the most important volume doesn't allow me to search for files – it won't show any results.

The harddrive stores about 8TB of data and looking for the file manually isn't possible because i only know the item number, not the day it got archived. I have to look up several files a day – thats why i really need a working spotlight search.

 

I've already tried to re-index the files via the spotlight-privacy-trick and via terminal.

(mdutil /Volumes/Online\ Redaktion/ -i off and turning it on again)

It still does not work tho..

 

I haven't found anything else on the world wide web but maybe someone here knows what i could do?

Best regards

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Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 1:51 AM

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