Search not working in Finder and Spotlight in El Capitan
Hello. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 on a MacBook Pro.
I have absolutely no search functionality in Finder, and Spotlight is only searching a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Apple, and Wikipedia, not my computer.
Here are some suggestions I've found online that haven't worked for me.
I've tried adding my hard drive to Privacy in System Preferences > Spotlight, but I get the following error message: Privacy List Error - The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error.
I tried going into terminal and entering mdutil -s /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
but I get Error: unexpected indexing state. kMDConfigSearchLevelTransitioning
I tried locate .metadata_never_index
but I get The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
I tried sudo mdutil -E /
but I get Index is already changing state. Please try again in a moment.
I don't know enough to know what to do next. I know how to use my computer to do what I need to do, but not how to fix stuff like this.
I would appreciate any help!
Thanks.
Sue
MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.11