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How to control spotlight per Terminal?

Spotlight forget to work every third day. It is a chimäre. How to control spotlight per Terminal?


~br Karl



Posted on Feb 2, 2021 3:26 AM

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Posted on Feb 5, 2021 2:40 PM

No idea. But Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy lets you add and remove drives and folders from the filter that blocks indexing. Toggling that usually gets that folder or drive to reindex, and indicate it is indexing in the spotlight menu.


Make sure you aren't running any third party optimizers. Use Etrecheck to look for LaunchDaemons you don't recognize. Those by Zeobit, Macpaw, Cleaner, Mackeeper are actually not safe to be run on your system. This tip explains how to isolate them:


https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002463

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Feb 5, 2021 2:40 PM in response to KarlPfeifferHarbachoed

No idea. But Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy lets you add and remove drives and folders from the filter that blocks indexing. Toggling that usually gets that folder or drive to reindex, and indicate it is indexing in the spotlight menu.


Make sure you aren't running any third party optimizers. Use Etrecheck to look for LaunchDaemons you don't recognize. Those by Zeobit, Macpaw, Cleaner, Mackeeper are actually not safe to be run on your system. This tip explains how to isolate them:


https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002463

How to control spotlight per Terminal?

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