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Created August 22, 2011 02:47
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Reset spotlight on osx and Start indexing again
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To reset the data cache on your Mac’s hard drive,
sudo mdutil -E /
To force Spotlight to immediately start re-indexing your hard drive (this might take a few hours and is probably best left to run overnight), enter this command:
sudo mdutil -i on /
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