Corrupted Spotlight Index
Since updating to Big Sur, the Spotlight index on an external drive has become corrupted. The original. problem was that word searching produced no results whatsoever. I forced a rebuilt of the index by adding the drive in the Spotlight Privacy pane in System Preferences and then removing it (per Apple's instructions for building the index). After the rebuild, the index is still corrupted, but in a different way. It now produces Spotlight results, but they open the wrong files. In other words, if the Spotlight search shows the search term can be found in file ABC, and I click on that file, it opens file XYZ.
I am rebuilding the index again and hope for better results this time but I don't expect it to work the second time when it failed the first time. Does anyone know why this happens or know the solution?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
