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Does not work. I happen to know a fair bit about mdutil and the like and confirmed that does exactly nothing for my particular issue. A full Spotlight index reset works temporarily, but after a while it just conks out again.

Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.




> Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.

Good memory! Apple removed this feature in El Capitan.


I'm ancient by today's AI standards :)


Yea this has been happening on all of my family’s MacBooks. Spotlight indexing just hammers the CPU, and also seems to be doing nothing at all.


It seems to churn the index. I have no other explanation for its behavior. And of course filing Feedback in Apple's tools doesn't help.


I have a vaguely related, kind of interesting story related to search indexes, but on windows instead of mac.

My C drive was was super full for some reason I couldn't understand, and Explorer couldn't tell me where the data was. There was about 100GB just unaccounted for.

I don't even use the search index.




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