How do I re index my files on Catalina 10.15.5? Im trying to solve an issue where spotlight does not return results from docs or apps, only safari. In activity monitor mds_stores is hitting 100% cpu.
I've followed the advice to add and remove directories to private in spotlight preferences but this doesn't seem to work. Ive disabled spotlight in terminal which solves mds_stores issue but I would like to troubleshoot this correctly so I can use spotlight again.
Thanks
MacBook Pro
mdutil is your friend.
checkout "man mdutil" form the terminal
To reset the index:
Open a terminal an type:
Turn indexing off for all drives:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
Erase the local store for indexing data
sudo mdutil -a -E
Maybe also erase the store from the drive via
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/*
Finally turn indexing back on
sudo mdutil -a -i on
If you don't want to do this for all drives omit the -a parameter and pass the path to the volume at the end of the command
e.g.:
sudo mdutil -I off /Volumes/<Name of your HDD>
mdutil is your friend.
checkout "man mdutil" form the terminal
To reset the index:
Open a terminal an type:
Turn indexing off for all drives:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
Erase the local store for indexing data
sudo mdutil -a -E
Maybe also erase the store from the drive via
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/*
Finally turn indexing back on
sudo mdutil -a -i on
If you don't want to do this for all drives omit the -a parameter and pass the path to the volume at the end of the command
e.g.:
sudo mdutil -I off /Volumes/<Name of your HDD>
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