Spotlight reindexing

When I go to reindex my Macintosh HD under Spotlight > Privacy it says that it will exclude this location from Spotlight searches. I was told that if I am to reindex my hard drive then my computer would show the correct amount of data usage under the About This Mac tab (it currently shows disproportionate storage to what is actually been used - says I have 120gb of apps when I only have 11).
Is there any other way to make the About This Mac > Storage tab show the correct amount of storage used? If not, do I need to worry about excluding Macintosh HD from Spotlight searches?
Thank you

Selina97 wrote:
When I go to reindex my Macintosh HD under Spotlight > Privacy it says that it will exclude this location from Spotlight searches.
That is correct. That is the way to force a reindexing of Macintosh HD.
When Macintosh HD is prevented from searching , the existing index will be deleted automatically.
That will force the OS X to create a new index.
When you add Macintosh HD to the Privacy pane of Spotlight
You will get a dialog box like this. Click OK.

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I was searching a lot of stuff and I didn't found any resonable solution.
It starts about the last update to 10.9.1. (17.12.).
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
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Hardware Information:
          MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
          MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir4,2
          1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
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          WkSvMacX: Path: /Library/StartupItems/WkSvMacX
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          OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 5:16:30
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                    MacAir SSD (disk0s2) /: 250.14 GB (11.1 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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          Apple Inc. FaceTime Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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          MagicMenu
          Phone Amego
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mds is the metadata server that is used primarily by Spotlight. That file probably appeared because mds crashed. It's possible the file should have been invisible but lost its invisible status, but of this I'm not sure. If you look in the console log for the date and time when that file was created you may find a log entry. If not in the console log perhaps in one of the other logs such as the crash reporter logs.
Kappy,
I searched for mds-crash-state in the console, system, and other logs, and could find no reference to it at all. However, searching for just mds yielded the following on July 10, 2008, in the crashreporter.log:
Thu Jul 10 08:04:30 2008 crashdump[3522]: crashdump started
Thu Jul 10 08:04:33 2008 crashdump[3522]: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds.crash.log
Thu Jul 10 08:04:36 2008 crashdump[3522]: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds.crash.log
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