mds LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10813

Spotlight stopped to answer to simply questions as "System Preferences" or "Disk Utility".

I've tried to re-create the index via System Preferences (adding and removing the disk in the privacy pane) and via terminal (mdutil -E, -i off/on, rm -r .Spotligh-V100) but without success.

In the console there are errors on every second like:

errore	16:19:03.743202 +0100	mds	LaunchServices: store or url (null) was nil -10813, retrying
errore	16:19:03.743247 +0100	mds	LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10813, retries = 7

The retries is a counter that increase in loop from 0 to 9.

Any help?

Posted on Nov 8, 2017 7:20 AM

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Nov 28, 2017 12:44 AM in response to Andrea Cerrito

I have the same problem (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8176120).

I don't know if it is related, but it appeared around the same time I reformatted an external spinning drive in APFS (Encrypted).

I tried reinstalling macOS 10.13.1 over the existing install without success.

I feel my last option is to reformat and install a fresh system from scratch. My Mac is unusable without Spotlight…

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Nov 28, 2017 1:58 AM in response to Andrea Cerrito

Thanks for the hint!

I rebuilt Launch Services Database following the thread in

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7913794

and forced a rebuild of the local stores with

sudo mdutil -E /

and it seems to be working. The metadata server has stopped generating errors.

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Nov 12, 2017 12:22 PM in response to Andrea Cerrito

I have the same issue. It also happens when I try to make a Time Machine backup:

error

21:22:27.968375 +0100

backupd

LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10813, retries = 1

error

21:22:36.887358 +0100

backupd

LaunchServices: store or url (null) was nil -10813, retrying

...

I have thousands of these issues in the console log.

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Nov 13, 2017 12:01 AM in response to Matthias Buchetics

I've solved the problem running this tool: http://etrecheck.com/

It found some old stuff in Launchservices, after running the clean function and after a reboot, the problem was resolved.

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Nov 13, 2017 12:27 AM in response to Andrea Cerrito

What do you mean by running "the clean function"? I ran etrecheck but couldn't any obvious issues.

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Nov 13, 2017 1:06 AM in response to Matthias Buchetics

If Etrecheck found some problems like this one, there will be a clean function:

https://imgur.com/RxFBDap

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Nov 28, 2017 1:13 AM in response to David Roessli

I don't know, my Mac has two disks (one AFPS e one HFS), but the problem was resolved cleaning the LaunchServices.

Now my Spotlight is fine.

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