Todd Vaziri1d ago

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

Show threadsjsmac1d ago
@tvaziri Just use mdutil. If you're aware enough to see spotlight needs a rebuilt why are you wasting your time outside terminal?
Show threadDavid Cohen1d ago
@sjsmac @tvaziri Some of us like the Mac *because* it has a GUI, not despite it having a GUI
Show threadMacBalance13h ago
@davidbcohen @sjsmac @tvaziri Intend to agree. I do a lot of terminal stuff but I feel “needing” to do that is a failing.
Show threadsjsmac12h ago
@MacBalance @davidbcohen @tvaziri for things that 99.9% of users will never need to do, I am fine with that requiring the command line.
Show threadDavid Cohen

@sjsmac @MacBalance @tvaziri 99.9%? Spotlight is unreliable enough that they have spent the time to write the silly instructions for “remove the target from Spotlight, wait a few seconds and then add it back” - and that workaround has been in the product for YEARS.

They ahould really either fix the bugs in the service or surface an interface to reset it.

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