Quick way to reset Spotlight

Quick way to reset Spotlight:
Hi everyone! I am looking to know if somebody can help me with this issue:
My Spotlight option is not working properly and all that I am trying to find into my computer is not comming up
even if this documents are into muy computer. That's mean tha I know this files are right into my system but
I don't understand why the Spotlight option is not doing his work at all. :/
Thank you and I hope that somebody could help me on this.

Hello:
Just open a Terminal and type this :
sudo mdutil -i on /
That will enable indexing
Then type:
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
That will delete the Spotlight indexing database
And then type:
sudo mdutil -E /
That will rebuild the database. It may take a while.
Good luck

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