Force Spotlight to Reindex

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by Chris on December 31, 2009

Recently Spotlight on my MacBook Pro started having a problem where it couldn’t complete its indexing. While searching around for a solution I came upon this useful trick to force Spotlight into creating a new index without using the terminal.

spotlight-privacybAll you need to do is go to the privacy tab in Spotlight preferences and add the volume you want reindexed by clicking the small + button. After around five minutes go back and remove it by selecting the volume and using the – button.

Spotlight should now reindex the volume and hopefully as in my case resolve any problems you have been having.

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