Edward Sanderson

Q: Search field stopped returning results

I am trying to search amongst the files on my hard drive, using the window's search field, but it has stopped returning any results. When I run "mdutil -E /" in Terminal it always returns: "Error: Index is already changing state.  Please try again in a moment." If I try "mdutil -s -a" it says:


/:

Error: unexpected indexing state.  kMDConfigSearchLevelTransitioning

/.MobileBackups:

2015-10-05 13:58:34.351 mdutil[4049:667994] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreAttributes failed: (8) (os/kern) no access

  No index.

/Volumes/MobileBackups:

  Index is read-only.

/Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb:

  Index is read-only.


When I run Cocktail app, it says that "Unable to detect Spotlight indexing status. ""Macintosh HD"" is not accessible, read-only or mdutil (/usr/bin/mdutil) is not working properly."


I've tried restarting, with no change.

 

I'm not sure what options I have if mdutil is not working? Many thanks in advance for any advice!

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 6:05 AM

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