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Sonoma 14.7.1 and as some people report, Seqouia too:
Spotlight repeatedly fails. Reindexing works for a while, but then it breaks again, Spotlight stops working/searching across MacOS (Mail, Notes, etc)
Apple Mail Smart Mailboxes stop working, after several hours of mailbox rebuilding, they work for a while, but break again.
WHAT IS GOING ON???
PLEASE people, read posts before You rush to answer!
I know how to reindex Spotlight, thank You. The issue here is that it DOES NOT help. After a brief period Spotllight breaks again and I have to repeat the process which takes about half an hour on my Macbook Pro.
Tried this, and I had Filevault off, because having it on introduces a whole lot of other problems. None of the proposed soltutions work. Ever since I've updated to Sonoma 14.7.1 Spotlight and Mail keep breaking every 1-2 days and I have to waste about 2-3 hours to bring them back working with re-indexing.
A temporary „solution” may be removing a Gmail account from Mail but I need Apple Mail smartfolders for this account :-/
Have you tried this.
sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -a -i on
sudo mdutil -E
Other people have turned their FileVault off and it seems to help.
Broken Spotlight and Mail in Sonoma
