Spotlight "Indexing and searching disabled" for external drive
I have one external drive that I store my iTunes library and other files on. I can NOT get spotlight to work on this drive. It is a 4 TB disk, formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". In the terminal, if I try: mdutil -sa, I get the following (Calvin is the external drive):
mdutil -sa
/:
Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/Calvin:
Indexing and searching disabled.
I have tried the following (several times) WITHOUT success:
1. Resetting spotlight via System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy by adding the external drive to the excluded list, saving the preferences, then removing the external drive from the excluded list and saving the preferences.
2. I have tried "Ignore ownership on this volume" on and off.
3. Via the CLI, turning off SIP, deleting the spotlight indexes, forcing re-indexing, turning SIP back on with the following commands:
boot with command-R
open terminal
csrutil disable
reboot
open terminal
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /
boot with command-R
open terminal
csrutil enable
reboot
Does anyone have experience getting this fixed? Ideas? This is on 10.14.6, but was occurring in earlier versions of MacOS too.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)