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Macos Ventura search issue on external volues.

After upgrading to Ventura on my MacBook Pro, the search on external drives stopped working. I have already tried changing Spotlight privacy and forced indexing via terminal, but without success.

Here the result:

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/myvolume
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/myvolume:
Error: unable to perform operation.  (-403)
	Server search enabled.

Anyone have the same problem?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 1:12 AM

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Posted on Nov 21, 2022 9:28 AM

picking up where this left off....


I'm going to speak for all of us because I'm experiencing the same issue, and the similarities i'm reading indicate that it is clearly a bug of some kind. We're able to search network volumes by searching within the network tab, but what we specifically lost was the ability to search within a specific network shared folder. it's now the entire volume or nothing for search scope and it's incredibly frustrating because, as someone said above, this was working flawlessly prior to upgrading to Ventura.


unique to me (or no one else has mentioned): when i try to search within a specific folder, the finder window locks up so severely that i'm forced to reboot my mac.


Open to the idea of checking ACLs -- how would I do that?

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