Spotlight search no longer works after upgrading to macOS Tahoe
Can not get any search result from spotlight searching. Tried to rebuild searching index, reboot laptop, does not work at all.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0
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Copy/Paste this into Terminal. sudo will ask for your password. Just type the password and hit return. It won't show anything on screen.
sudo mdutil -X /; sudo mdutil -i on /; sudo mdutil -E /
Then, restart or log out and log back into your account.
The first command erases the .Spotlight-v100 folder. The second and third restart indexing.
You can show invisibles and delete it in Finder if you don't want to use terminal. It is located at /System/Volumes/Data/
Then do the GUI rebuild procedure you already did, log out and log back in.