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Jul 7, 2015 1:05 PM in response to reizenby Linc Davis,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 â–¹ 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.
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Jul 7, 2015 6:38 PM in response to Linc Davisby reizen,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.
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Jul 8, 2015 5:08 AM in response to reizenby reizen,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.
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Jul 8, 2015 5:50 PM in response to Linc Davisby reizen,Thanks! Was able to delete the file. Followed your instructions to the letter. Still no spotlight.
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Jul 8, 2015 6:20 PM in response to Linc Davisby reizen,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
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Jul 8, 2015 6:24 PM in response to reizenby reizen,This seemed to work (from an Alfred chat room)
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
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Oct 2, 2015 4:03 AM in response to Linc Davisby hcb,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?
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Oct 2, 2015 5:26 AM in response to hcbby hcb,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!
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Jan 30, 2016 9:21 AM in response to Linc Davisby Michael108S,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!
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Feb 15, 2016 6:43 PM in response to reizenby filmblanc108,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
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Jun 5, 2016 4:02 PM in response to filmblanc108by RufusGor,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
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Jun 20, 2016 2:47 PM in response to RufusGorby crkdln,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.