Spotlight not able to find anything on my drive High Sierra
I am running a 2015 Macbook Air with 10.13.6 High Sierra
Suddenly Spotlight refuses to return any results from my drive, even from the applications folder.
I have tried all the obvious methods; restarting etc.
I have tried rebuilding the index through the finder (adding / removing files and even HD from privacy)
I have tried rebuilding through Terminal:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo mdutil -a -I on
sudo mdutil -E
I have searched for days through communities and discussions to no avail.
If I have to think of when this started, I believe it was when I created an external bootable drive for the purposes of archive. I think that was when this began, although that drive has never been used nor connected since. Frankly I cannot see the connection?
I am now at a loss.
If anyone can please help?
Thank you
Phil
MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)
