Spotlight index of mounted volumes

From Tech-Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Back to Mac

Spotlight index of mounted volumes: (maybe ignored by macos though?)

mdutil -i on /Volumes/nameofvolume | Enables Spotlight indexing
mdutil -i off /Volumes/nameofvolume | Disables Spotlight indexing
mdutil -s /Volumes/nameofvolume | Displays current status of indexing
mdutil -E /Volumes/nameofvolume | Erases the Spotlight Index

Retrieved from ‘http://tech-wiki.net/index.php?title=Spotlight_index_of_mounted_volumes&oldid=732’

Apple