Note that indexing may be delayed due to low disk space or other condi- tions. There is no other command that I know of: that is the command which provides the interface to the management of Spotlight. I presume this is still on Sierra? In macOS Is there a way to permanently disable Spotlight for all external devices by default?
It unconditionally creates these hidden folders as soon as you plug something in. There is an option to disable indexing on networked disks, but none apparently which covers all external disks. What is it about the Spotlight index that makes that such a target of hatred by non-Mac users?
From my experience it still does it all… but… there is some bug at least in Big Sur when email and notes search stops working as soon as you switch users. If you restart your mac and use only one account than everything works perfectly — until you switch to another user, then when you switch back search is broken. I am referring to Spotlight and at least in-app in case for email.
This is an issue I experience myself and found multiple references on Internet people with the same problem and solution. I had problems with Spotlight in Catalina, I could not find applications. Trying various mdutil command, first it gave me different errors, was in a changing state, and others.
In the end I have managed to re-index, at least according to the search window that shows the blue bar. Spotlight-VT folder on the disk on both Macintosh HD drives data or system and with the invisible files view enabled. If I see. Trashes with symbols forbidden by their permissions, or. This folder must exist in Catalina or is it hidden still activating the invisible files view?
It mentioned the deletion of the com. But now it is protected by SIP and is not allowed. Is the missing of my. Spotlight-VT folder related to some new Apple security patch? Feb 11, AM. Your content could not be saved. Please try again in a few moments. Click here to refresh this page. Yet, that was a misleading and utterly wrong message, since the reason was that the editing time had expired. It would be good if a correct message was issued, and mainly if there is no expiration time for editing.
Thanks, but doing it starts showing sizes of all items in disk, which are thousands and thus may take hours! So, I aborted it with "Command. I have found that the culprit for showing "Command not found" is that when the command is copied from this forum message by BarneyE; not message by Eau Rouge, which pastes OK using Safari After changing them by standard spaces, the command with or without slash at end. I understand that it means that Spotlight index file of booting disk takes 80 GB.
Is that correct? On the other hand, as indicated above, how to know the size of such Spotlight index file of Time Machine disk not the booting disk. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.
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Question feed. Super User works best with JavaScript enabled. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. You can add an item to the Privacy tab only if you have ownership permissions for that item. Then click the remove button — to remove it from the list.
Quit System Preferences.
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