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Spotlight not indexing after Sierra upgrade

Posted on September 22, 2017 - September 22, 2017 by vrpc

Looks like this helped me:

first I removed all selections under System Preferences/ Spotlight/ search results
restart
use terminal:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
wait 20s
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/*
you should get a message indicating that indexing is enabled.

resources:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7684120?start=0&tstart=0

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5004598?start=0&tstart=0

Posted on September 11, 2017 by vrpc

for some reason I had parental control enabled on network user with local admin rights.

it wasn’t possible to remove them using system preferences.

to remove it I used terminal command:

sudo dscl . -mcxdelete /Users/username
sudo rm -rf /Library/Managed\ Preferences/username