Here is a weird thing I have never come across. Mac Mini, New Primary Drive, SSD, was cloned from older SSD (both are mounted internally).
Searching for various files, in finder, I was coming up with nothing. No results. I thought this is weird. They have to be there. I also tried seating in spotlight.
Some files had such unique .extensions they always appear in a search.
The CLONE drive is always unmounted after cloning. So it's not usually being searched (and possibly not being indexed passivley). I forgot about this, so obviously the search is looking on the primary mounted OS drive and any attached HD's but not the CLONE, so I mounted it. I also made sure no drives are marked to not be indexed in spotlight privacy settings.
I ran the search again. Nothing. Then I went to the specific CLONE drive and searched top level here and lo and behold, I found all the missing files.
It is as if my primary OS drive is not fully indexed. I proved they exist then also on this drive, by going to manually look for these files after I had exact reference form the CLONE versions and I found them, using creation date to local visually.
What is going on here and is there anything I can do to force re-indexing or fix the index?
This threw me for a few weeks, I had virtually lost files. Thankfully not.
I guess the fundamental equations is:
Why is finder not finding the files I need on my primary macOS drive?
ref: macOS Catalina.
Searching for various files, in finder, I was coming up with nothing. No results. I thought this is weird. They have to be there. I also tried seating in spotlight.
Some files had such unique .extensions they always appear in a search.
The CLONE drive is always unmounted after cloning. So it's not usually being searched (and possibly not being indexed passivley). I forgot about this, so obviously the search is looking on the primary mounted OS drive and any attached HD's but not the CLONE, so I mounted it. I also made sure no drives are marked to not be indexed in spotlight privacy settings.
I ran the search again. Nothing. Then I went to the specific CLONE drive and searched top level here and lo and behold, I found all the missing files.
It is as if my primary OS drive is not fully indexed. I proved they exist then also on this drive, by going to manually look for these files after I had exact reference form the CLONE versions and I found them, using creation date to local visually.
What is going on here and is there anything I can do to force re-indexing or fix the index?
This threw me for a few weeks, I had virtually lost files. Thankfully not.
I guess the fundamental equations is:
Why is finder not finding the files I need on my primary macOS drive?
ref: macOS Catalina.
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