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- macos - Can I delete the .Spotlight-V100 file - Ask DifferentOn OSX recent versions .Spotlight-V100 is xattr protected, meaning rm commands are inoperant, whatever privileges you own. This explains the "Operation not permitted" mentioned in the above thread. To remove a .Spotlight-V100 folder, use the mdutil utility instead. mdutil - manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight
- high sierra - How do I rebuild the Spotlight index - Ask DifferentI just fixed my Spotlight index issue a couple days ago with the following commands. Was driving me nuts too. cd / sudo mdutil -E / sudo mdutil -a -i off sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100/ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD For MacOS 10.15 Catalina and beyond, the last two lines should be:
- Is there something special about the .Spotlight directories/data?These directories house files that are indexes to allow searching your drive with Spotlight. (see the magnifying glass on the menubar of your Mac.) Deleting those indexes will force spotlight to re-index your drive (which is perfectly natural) and it will make a new index, hopefully something small and tidy.
- How do I stop Mac OS X from putting hidden .Trashes and .Spotlight-V100 ...One way is to create files called .Trashes and .Spotlight-V100. To be sure, do this from a Windows PC and make the files read-only. Just be careful that they don't get deleted. When you try to delete files now, OS X will tell you they must be deleted immediately instead of moving them to the trash.
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