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Fix broken Spotlight / Time Machine (white pointer on black screen on shutdown and/or restart)
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The problem is not with Spotlight, but with Launch Services. There are two steps to solving the problem:
sudo mkdir /private/var/db/lsd
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network
The first one creates the folder that the launch services daemon needs to store the database. That’s why LaunchServices is getting an -10822 error, because it can’t create the database, so it keeps resetting the connection. The second command tells launch services to kill the old database and create a new one from scratch. Voila
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