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Hi,
I'm running Mojave 10.14.2 on a 27" iMac and I keep getting "Suggested quit unexpectedly" messages repeatedly.
I did a search for solutions and tried the suggestions of restarting in safe mode, opening Terminal and entering various key commands, all to no avail.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, please?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this matter. M
iMac 27″, macOS 10.14
Possible solution...
suggestd quit unexpectedly - Apple Community
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal
If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc.
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
Hi BDAqua,
Thanks so much for getting back to me.
Yes, I've tried exactly this approach from my previous attempts to sort the problem, with no effect. I copied and pasted the command line into Terminal i.e. "sudo mdutil -E /" and "sudo mdutil -i on /" after rebooting in safe mode, but the problem persists. Thanks for your kindly help, however. M
" I'm running Mojave 10.14.2 " are are a whole bundle of Updates for Mojave past 10.14.2 all the way to 10.14.6 and then another buddies of Security Updates including the latest macOS Mojave Security Update 2021-005 (18G9323) dated Post Date: Aug 5, 2021
So far so good using Mojave Security Update 2021-005 (18G9323).
Thank you,
Repeatedly getting "Suggested quit unexpectedly" error message.
