Solutions Log by Dan Reiland

30Sep/090

Clear Spotlight Index

From a terminal window:

sudo mdutil -avE

That is, sudo (because you have to have admin rights to run this), mdutil (the program that does the work for you) -a for “work on all volumes”, -v for “be verbose in telling me what you’re doing”, and -E for “erase the data store and rebuild it”.

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