Yosemite Spotlight Server is Disabled

[ronnie.barker]

Although this is not an Alfred bug, Alfred relies on the spotlight server (I believe) to index so I am not getting any indexed results.

 

I am not sure how I managed it (although I think it might be because I had spotlight disabled before upgrading to yosemite), but my spotlight server seems to be disabled. Trying any mdutil commands result in:

 

-07 08:55:25.673 mdutil[2360:239343] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port

Spotlight server is disabled.

 

All of the forums out there that have instructions to stop and start spotlight seem to reference plist service files in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons that do not exist in yosemite :-(

[RodgerWW]

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

 

This works for me in Yosemite

[annie]

Hi there, I have exactly the same problem as ronnie.barker. !

 

I have only just udapted to Yosemite (10.10).

Before, I had turned spotlight off for ages because it slowed my time machine backup down.

Now I just wanted to test it and turn it on again, because the search in Mac Mail.app doesn't work - and I would need the search there now.

 

I tried the command

 

sudo mdutil -a -i off (and on)

 

and it came up with: 

mdutil[1766:78805] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port

Spotlight server is disabled.

 

 

After that I tried the command Rodger also recommended (sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist) 

and Terminal did not seem to react, the Spotlight Search still does not work or show that it is indexing - how can you check that it actually does?

 

After that I tried the command again and now it says: 

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist: Operation already in progress

 

Does that mean it is indexing now? How do I know how long it will take?

 

Thanks a lot for any help in advance!

[annie]

just to let anyone know who is interested.. I have rebooted after trying the above and typed in the commands

 

sudo mdutil -i off /

sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -i on /

 

 after each other.

 

Now spotlight works and is indexing! will turn it off before the next time machine back up though

[face]

I'm struggling to make Alfred search (only) in a network shared folder in Yosemite.

Sometimes Alfred works and sometime no (from client).

The odd is that ONLY Alfred search from client on server (shared folder).

Spotlight on client not search on server.

 

You've executed this command on server or on client ?

I've tried on client all these commands, with no improvements ...