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Reset Spotlight search on macOS.
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Reset Spotlight

Run the following commands to restart and rebuild your Spotlight index on macOS.

  1. Turn indexing off.
  2. Delete Spotlight folder.
  3. Turn indexing on.
  4. Rebuild index.
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /

Thanks to Eric Espino.

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