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sudo mdutil -E but still "spotlight disabled"

My Spotlight stopped being able to find certain files, so I wanted to re-index the drive. I tried putting the drive on/off the Privacy list of Spotlight control panel, and when it didn't help, I tried the terminal command:

[mlevinoffice:~] mlevin% sudo mdutil -E /

Password:

Indexing disabled.

[mlevinoffice:~] mlevin%

why does it still say "Indexing disabled" after the sudo mdutil -E??

Posted on Jun 19, 2013 4:51 AM

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WZZZ

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Posted on Jun 19, 2013 5:42 AM

Did it finish? Try

sudo mdutil -a -i on

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

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Pondini

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Jun 21, 2013 7:10 AM in response to Michael Levin

Ah, cool. 😎

Rebooting does often fix stuff!

Glad it's sorted out, and thanks for letting us know.

Michael Levin Author

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Jun 21, 2013 7:23 AM in response to Pondini

yep thanks for the help! The original issue had not been fixed by rebooting, so I appreciate the advice here - very helpful.

sudo mdutil -E but still "spotlight disabled"