Metadata Control - Manage Spotlight Indexing | Online Free DevTools by Hexmos
Manage spotlight indexing with mdutil on macOS. Control indexing status, enable/disable indexing, and erase metadata stores using the command line. Free online tool, no registration required.
mdutil
Manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight for indexing. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/mdutil.1.html.
- Show the indexing status of the startup volume:
mdutil -s {{/}}
- Turn on/off the Spotlight indexing for a given volume:
mdutil -i {{on|off}} {{path/to/volume}}
- Turn on/off indexing for all volumes:
mdutil -a -i {{on|off}}
- Erase the metadata stores and restart the indexing process:
mdutil -E {{path/to/volume}}