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Subject: Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?
Date: 3 Jul 2021 15:28:57 GMT
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On 2021-07-03, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 2021 Jul 02, Ant wrote
> (in article<bZGdnUE8CMjNDkL9nZ2dnUU7-I9j4p2d@earthlink.com>):
>> In comp.sys.mac.apps Wolffan<akwolffan@zoho.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2021 Jul 01, Ant wrote
>>> (in article<XeGdnWshZZWW-kP9nZ2dnUU7-QNQAAAA@earthlink.com>):
>>>> It seems I have to do it monthly
>>>> (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
>>
>> > I???ve never manually rebuilt the Spotlight index in Big Sur. I last rebuilt
>> > the Spotlight index manually five or six years ago. Doing an update install
>> > usually rebuilds the Spotlight index automatically on reboot. There is
>> > usually no reason to rebuild the index after that.
>>
>> > Why do you think that you need to rebuild the index? Are you having problems
>> > with a search?
>>
>> Yes, it doesn't see all the thousands of Office files in ~/Documents.
>> Rebuilding Spotlight fixes it temporarily. :(
>
> Ah...
>
> 1 stick files in subdirectories, not all in one directory.
>
> 2 check your system; Spotlight isn’t supposed to lose files unless 
> there’s a directory problem. Run Disk Utility.
>
> 3 create a _full_ backup, using Time Machine or a utility like Carbon Copy 
> Cloner, or, preferably, _two_ backups, one with Time Machine and one with CCC 
> or whatever. Compare the backups. If there are differences, you have 
> significant directory damage. Nuke the volume, do a full restore, using both 
> backups. You almost certainly have low-level problems on that volume, doing a 
> full backup (two backups, and check to see if there are differences) a 
> reformat and restore should fix it. Unless there’s a hardware problem, and 
> you need a new drive.
>
> Having to rebuild the Spotlight index all the time is not normal. It’s a 
> sign that your volume has a problem. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

Yep. Something is definitely wrong.

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