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Spotlight reindexing question
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
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I'm on 10.11.6
I like to re-index two hardrives every few months.
I did the drag volume into privacy, add/ delete, but don't see any spotlight activity when I click on the magnifier icon in upper right menu bar, and also I don't see spotlight listed ( I can't fine it anyway) in activity monitor. Thanks.
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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Add volume to Spotlight privacy, switch to another prefpane. Switch back to Spotlight/privacy, remove volume. I'm not sure it takes until you switch away from the Spotlight prefpane.
Indexing shows in Activity Monitor as "mds", "mds_stores", "mdworker". Most of those will be owned by root, so you have to set Activity Monitor to show All Processes.
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Mac Elite
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Reader thanks. md stores is in there now, but since i did not look before doing this, how can I know its indexing afresh the volumes I want? And what about upper right menulet? That really would show whats going on with indexing with progress bar.
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Administrator Join Date: Jun 2000
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It's been a few OS versions since I've seen the Spotlight progress bar. It would be helpful, but Apple seems to have removed it.
You can check if the search index has been deleted by searching for something common. Such as in Mail. If it can't find squat, the index is deleted. If you can find stuff after the rebuild, then the index has been rebuilt.
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Mac Elite
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Thanks Reader, ok I searched for a term in an email from yesterday, and it came up in spotlight. Is that the best method in general to see it spotlight is Aok? If so then maybe I don't even need to reindex... Just do that test every few months?
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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You normally don't need to reindex regularly. Unless you have issues with files not being found, you don't need to reindex.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Thanks P, well, I always have noticed things are not searching and I have to use Easyfind, so I made a quarterly schedule to reindex.
But I like that new trick. Just search for something in yesterdays Mail, apple mail, and then I'll know if that's needed? Right. There is no official way to now if you up to date.
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