Sometime in the past week I noticed that spotlight on my Mac wasn't finding anything in /Applications. I have a 2017 MBP 13 inch and I have two bootable volumes, one with Mac OS 10.15.7 Catalina and one with Mac OS 13.2 Ventura. Oddly enough, this problem effects both OS when booted.
I've tried all of the normal spotlight troubleshooting that I can think of:
- Added and removed the volume from Spotlight/Privacy in system preferences.
- Ran sudo mdutil -E / at the terminal
- Disabling/enabled spotlight with sudo mdutil -a -i off/sudo mdutil -a -i on
- All of the boxes are checked in the search results tab in the Spotlight preference pane.
- Unchecking and then re-checking /Applications doesn't appear to have done anything.
Does anyone have any suggestions? It's unclear why spotlight would suddenly do this. I'd like to avoid a re-install if possible...
sudo mdutil -sav /
/:
Indexing enabled.
Scan base time: 2023-02-03 13:07:12 +0000 (24067 seconds ago), reasoning: '(null)'
/System/Volumes/Data:
Indexing enabled.
I've tried all of the normal spotlight troubleshooting that I can think of:
- Added and removed the volume from Spotlight/Privacy in system preferences.
- Ran sudo mdutil -E / at the terminal
- Disabling/enabled spotlight with sudo mdutil -a -i off/sudo mdutil -a -i on
- All of the boxes are checked in the search results tab in the Spotlight preference pane.
- Unchecking and then re-checking /Applications doesn't appear to have done anything.
Does anyone have any suggestions? It's unclear why spotlight would suddenly do this. I'd like to avoid a re-install if possible...
sudo mdutil -sav /
/:
Indexing enabled.
Scan base time: 2023-02-03 13:07:12 +0000 (24067 seconds ago), reasoning: '(null)'
/System/Volumes/Data:
Indexing enabled.