Spotlight crashing - requires reboot to fix

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As per title in the last week or two my spotlight search has started to play up. Tapping the spotlight icon (magnifying glass) will just return a beep. Search in a finder window still works and havent noticed any other issues. The only way I've found to get it working again is to reboot.

System details are as follows:

rMBP 13, 2.6GHz, 16GB
OSX 10.9.4
Installed from new and transferred files/installed sw (no backup) about 6 months ago.

Its getting annoying as I use spotlight to launch programs/find files largely.

Oh and I noticed most people who've mentioned spotlight issues have been to do with the mail App, but I don't use that.

 

[satcomer]

Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and use the code;

sudo mdutil -E /

. Then let it run until it;s dome (no more dot in the Spotlight Finder icon. This will rebuild your Spotlight index.

 

[5to1]

Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and use the code;

sudo mdutil -E /

. Then let it run until it;s dome (no more dot in the Spotlight Finder icon. This will rebuild your Spotlight index.

Thanks, I've given it a shot, hopefully a re-index fixes it.

 

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Problem appears to have returned

 

[satcomer]

Problem appears to have returned

Run Disk Utility on the drive to see if it fixes any errors.

 

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Disk Utility doesn't find anything wrong :/