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Enable Spotlight indexing for drives
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Enable Spotlight indexing for volumes (network shares, external disks, etc.) in Terminal

# enable indexing
mdutil /Volumes/name -i on

# disable indexing
mdutil /Volumes/name -i off

# check indexing status
mdutil /Volumes/name -s
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