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Nothing shows up in the index. When I tried to force index by adding my hard drive to the exclusion area and then removing it - it wouldn't let me add my hard drive - either said I didn't have permission or that there was an error. Any ideas appreciated.
Andrew
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), iOS 8.3
Hmm ... not quite working as you indicate.
Services > Open
Folder opens, and on the title bar is .Spotlight-V100 with a Do Not Enter symbol on it. There is no subfolder within that folder. Curious that the title bar on the folder that opens (rather than any subfolder) is .Spotlight-V100. Permissions for that folder are System - Read & Write, everyone (grayed out) - No Access.
If I change the permissions on that folder to allow read only, I have VolumeConfiguration.plist (accessible), Store-V1 folder (Do Not Enter) and Store-V2 folder (also with a Do Not Enter symbol). I cannot seem to change the permissions of the Store-V1 (which seems quite old, dating from 2013) or the Store-V2 folders.
I have already repaired permissions in the home folder and the disk, and even reinstalled Mac OS (Sierra). I booted in Safe Mode and logged into a clean user account - still no effect.
Appreciate any suggestions you might have.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/.Spotlight-V100
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu. A folder should open with a subfolder named ".Spotlight-V100" selected. Move the subfolder to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
Restart the computer in safe mode. Certain caches maintained by the system will be rebuilt.
Safe mode is much slower to start up than normal. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
When the login screen appears, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and test. There's no need to log in while in safe mode.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t start in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.
You can't see the folder in the Trash because it's invisible. The next time you empty the Trash, it should be deleted.
Thanks!
Didn't seem to work. Finder opened that spotlight folder - but I could not select it - only what was in it.
There also seems to be an issue that many of the folders don't seem to recognize that I am an administrator.
You don't have to open it. Just delete it.
Sorry if I am being dim. How do you delete that folder? In finder, the Spotlight-V100 is open - I can only delete what it is in it (and those folders are called something else. When I go up a folder - it disappears.
Set the Finder view mode to Columns.
Thanks! Was able to delete the file. Followed your instructions to the letter. Still no spotlight.
I don't know if this is important
from terminal
Press enter to continue or close this window to cancel...
2015-07-08 21:17:09.802 mdutil[659:65648] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Spotlight server is disabled.
Any folder I try to add to the spotlight privacy setting in preferences - comes up as an unknown error
This seemed to work (from an Alfred chat room)
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Hi!
I've tried all you wrote, disabled the firmware pwd and decrypted my disk before. Didn't changed anything.
So I made a fresh install of 10.11, and restored all my userdata via time machine.
The same problem. Spotlight uses no something like 136 % CPU-Usage.
😕 Any more tips?
I've just created another account on the same MBP. No problems. So this seems definitely to be a problem with my useraccount.
But I don't have any ideas how to resolv this, except to delete this account and create a new one. But this will need 12 to 14 hours
of reinstalling software, arrange all SW preferences... I would really like to avoid that!
HI
Will this solution posted here help with this problem?
Re: Spotlight in Yosemite cant search seagate external drive
It is very similar -- But I think it is not totally the same. My spotlight is working fine, just not seeing the Seagate External HD that is in ExFat format.
I would head to lose all of my data by by trying the wrong thing...
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks!
Thanks for posting this Reizen. I had the same problem with trying to reindex Spotlight but it not letting me. After using this command in Terminal I was able to reindex Spotlight and now it's working again! sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
if not indexed. you need to check LaunchDaemons can help, leave here:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.scan.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist
Thanks. My system showed that all had already been loaded except the last one (locate.plist). When i launched that it seemed to fix my problem.
Spotlight not working
