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
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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.
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