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Spotlight Indexing Status Questions as to Specific Folders

1. When using Terminal to reindex certain folders, is there a way to monitor and see reindexing progress?


2. When receiving the message ‘unknown indexing state,’ is there a way to find out what’ happening and if so, how?


3. When using Terminal to reindex, is there a way to get a text notification when the process is complete and if so, how?


Thank you!

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Mar 19, 2014 10:03 AM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2014 10:15 AM

I believe you can using


sudo mdutil -Esv /



The s is to display progress and the v is for verbose

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Spotlight Indexing Status Questions as to Specific Folders

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