Spotlight has stopped working
Last night my Mac crashed: the screen stopped updating, but the cursor remained movable but was very laggy. It stayed like this for five minutes until I killed the power.
After the restart, if I search for anything in Spotlight, nothing happens. If I click out of Spotlight and then back in again it says "no results found" even for things that I know it should find, like "safari".
I tried:
sudo su
mdutil -i off /
mdutil -E /
mdutil -i on /
but after rebuilding the index I'm still having the same problems. I also repaired permissions on the drive.
Any ideas?
Henry is in the right direction, but there might be a need to remove a file that prevents indexing of files - as many - including myself - has experienced that just trying to turn on indexing is not enough. One problem seems to be an "invisible" files that tell the system not to index. It has to be removed. This is best done with these steps - thanks to Jamie Curmi in this procedure:
1. Login in to your server as an administrator.
2. Open the Terminal application (in your /Applications/Utilities folder)
3. Type the following exactly as written in to the Terminal:
sudo rm /.metadataneverindex
It will ask you for your password. I have never seen this file, so you may get a "file not found" error - in which case move on to step 4 anyway.
4. Type the following in to the Terminal:
sudo mdutil -i on /
5. Spotlight in the right corner of your server login should indicate it is indexing, and before long will start working.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7063635#7063635
Good luck.
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