I’ve a bizarre Highlight subject with one among my exterior drives; I can search the drive as a complete simply advantageous, but when I attempt to search solely a selected folder inside it then the search merely would not work.
To offer an instance, to illustrate I had a file /Volumes/MyDrive/Footage/Picture.png, if I run:
mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/MyDrive '*.png'
The outcomes will embrace the file precisely as I count on. Nonetheless if I as an alternative run the next:
mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/MyDrive/Footage '*.png'
It as an alternative returns nothing, despite the fact that the picture is in that folder, and it is positively identified to Highlight (it’s returned within the appropriate path when looking at the next degree).
This subject appears to use to looking any folder inside the drive, irrespective of how nested, it impacts newly created folders and so-on so it should not be a problem with permissions or prolonged attributes (as a brand new folder ought to have default permissions and no prolonged attributes).
I’ve already tried re-creating the index through the next:
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/MyDrive
sudo mdutil -X /Volumes/MyDrive
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/MyDrive
After the second step I additionally verified that the .Highlight-V100 folder had been totally faraway from the drive, so when indexing is turned on the index must be created 100% recent.
Nonetheless the very same subject continues after indexing is full; for no matter motive I simply can’t search inside any folders, all my searches should be of all the drive (or my complete Mac) or they will not return something inside the drive in any respect.
Anybody have every other strategies about what I can attempt to repair this? Why within the heck would Highlight work advantageous with -onlyin for the drive, however not a folder inside it? It is such a weird subject!