Mastodawn

I love my Mac but stuff like this drives me up a wall. When Spotlight acts up, I want to rebuild the Spotlight index. These are the official instructions on how to do it: "Add your startup drive to the exclusions field... WAIT A FEW SECONDS... then remove it, then quit System Settings.”

HEAVEN FORBID there would be a cute little button in System Settings > Spotlight that says "Rebuild Spotlight Index” that we could push.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102321

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Axel

@tvaziri
not only that but *show me the freaking file* that crashed the spotlight indexing in the first place, so I can eliminate it.

I made a recursive descent spotlight indexer-with-log years ago, but that is harder to implement now.