![]() The issue was indeed that drive was not indexed by Spotlight. ![]() I don’t even know what he means by the word “Backups” in that last command either.) (I also tried typing a tab for the right arrow which also failed. I cut and pasted to get the above error and then tried just the sudo etc. (I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT ARROW MEANS EXACTLY. So no result and as you can see from the error that I obviously do not understand terminal syntax and don’t know how to type that last command that is supposed to enable indexing and searching on “New Ext INT DATA” Indexing and searching New Ext INT DATA % Zsh: command not found: New Ext INT DATA % sudo mdutil -a -i on I then went to his step 3 re: “BONUS: Enable indexing of external hard drives” / % sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/ ExternalVolumesIgnore -bool / % cd /Volumes/New\ Ext\ INT\ New Ext INT DATA % ➜ Backups sudo mdutil -a -i on Which seems to confirm that yes indeed indexing and searching are disabled on that external SSD drive I call “New Ext INT DATA” So I followed his instructions for using Terminal to type in the following: Last login: Sun Aug 8 18:37:51 on ~ % sudo mdutil -sa I rebuilt the spotlight index earlier today via the System Preferences panel for Spotlight (as mentioned) but I think it must have worked ONLY on the system drive.Īfter some internet research re: reindexing Spotlight on an external drive ( Fixing no Spotlight results on macOS Big Sur | The caffeinated engineer) I found someone who stated that Big Sur had TURNED OFF Spotlight on drives by default! Luc thought these links would be healing over time and I’d hoped rebuilding Spotlight would help that but no joy yet. And I’m not even going anywhere near an older issue involving anything MOVED (but not originally CREATED) in Boxcryptor! (Which has been unable to make Spotlight work in Big Sur going on since Big Sur became available since what - last September?) So I am painstakingly re-creating as many Hook Links as I can manually locate but this is a mess with many variables. I can view all 318 Hook Links (which I think is a correct number) via both Hooks Search facility AS WELL AS via the Hook “Browse Hook Bookmarks” Action the most up to date version of Launchbar.īut those that do not work from either of those search facilities (AND ALSO don’t work via NotePlan 3’s Hook Markdown links that I have collected laboriously to track projects over the last half a year or more) are ALSO not showing up when I search via Spotlight! This did not help with either Dropbox “stored” files or other files that were originally on the 5,400 rpm internal “Data” drive. So, I rebuilt the Spotlight Index entirely, twice. ![]() This holds down on local storage requirements, obviously.)īut I noticed that several Hook Links that were NOT in the Dropbox folder were also no longer working. (As files become needed Dropbox than downloads just that file to a fully functional local copy. Now SOME of these may be related to using a Dropbox folder that was set to NOT store files locally but leave them online.
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