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Broken Spotlight and Mail in Sonoma

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???



Posted on Nov 4, 2024 8:49 AM

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Nov 14, 2024 8:04 AM in response to AlWeir

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 :-/

Broken Spotlight and Mail in Sonoma

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