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Hi, so my mom reinstalled macOS Ventura 13.5 on our iMac, Finder & Spotlight are returning search results on our iMac hard drive, but now are not returning any search results on our external hard drive, even though it was before the re-installation... I tried adding & removing both the iMac HD...

Hello. I have been using every single Windows iteration (included Windows Vista and 8) since the days of Windows 95, however I fell in love with macOS on 2010, while using Snow Leopard, back in university. It was love at first sight, and to this day my main work machine has always been a mac...

Hi all, Anyone experienced spotlight indexing (just fine) but after a short period of time, seemingly rolling back the index and say 250 folders where pulling in a search, its now only pulling 2 folders? Setup: M2 MacMini 512GB HD with 16GB ram with Samsung 870 QVO 4 TB SATA (also tried with...

I've had an ongoing issue with macOS Messages app that I can't seem to figure out and hoping someone can help in some way. I currently have a 13" M1 MacBook Pro 16 GB RAM running macOS 11.5.1 however the issues with Messages began in Catalina—if I recall correctly—with a 2019 16" MacBook Pro...

I'm not even sure if this appeared just now (I was using Monolingual as well as trying to stop Spotlight from indexing external disks such as Time Machine backup) but this is when I noticed it. My whole system is installed in English, but I'm not in an English-speaking country or time-zone, and...

I have a G-Suite account that I have an email domain for my business through. I've been using this since 2009 and have had no issues until about 9 months ago when I noticed my mail downloading 200,000+ emails. It does this so much now that my ISP (Xfinity) has told me that I've reached my...

Ok, so ever since I updated to the latest beta, it never stopped indexing and "photolibraryd" always runs in the background, console is posting errors every second as can be seen in the screenshot below. MacBook Pro 13" 2018 lasts only about 3 hours on battery doing mostly nothing or watching a...

My mac is driving me nuts! I thought it was constantly indexing the spotlight. So I used the terminal to turn it off and then back on again so it would restart it. No difference. I then brought up my activity monitor and did a search for mdworker. It only found one. So that is not what is...

Since a few days ago Spotlight (no changes on the system as far as I remember) has been acting up: when I reboot, everything works fine. Then, after a few minutes just some files/folders disappear. Give it a few more minutes and another search and no files/folders can be found. For some reason...

Hi there. So, I had an encrypted image on an external drive. For security reasons I wanted all .Trashes and caches n such gone so I just shorthand decided to delete everything besides my actual .dmg image. Turns out you kinda need some of the stuff for indexing ur device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean I...

Hi! Anyone know if there's a way to force Spotlight to index the contents of the /Users/Shared folder? I tried sudo mdutil -i on /Users/Shared but that didn't work. I also tried adding and removing the folder to the Spotlight Privacy exclusion list in System Settings. Didn't work either.

mds_stores is hogging up GBs of memory. I guess it's related to spotlight indexing. With every boot, mds_stores just stat up and eat up RAM. Doesn't happen when I keep spotlight turned of via terminal. How do I stop this without turning off spotlight? Already tried creating new index via Onyx...

Hi, I've got many PDF's of magazines and wish to create a searchable index of the articles as listed in the Tables of Contents. I've tried the Adobe suggested method with limited success and am wondering if there is a slicker Apple tool for this. Any help? TIA, Bradley

Hi All, Not sure if this is the correct place for this post but I apologise if it's not. Nonetheless, I'm sure somebody here will have a solution for me. I've just set up a Synology NAS and I am trying to force spotlight to index my NAS. I have tried using the following command: sudo mdutil...