Spotlight Stopped Indexing My Apps
For a while Spotlight couldn’t find any of my recently installed apps (Herdr, Orca, etc.), and it turns out it had quietly stopped indexing anything for about six weeks. My Mac had been up for 132 days (apparently it was running a software factory kitchen :D), and at some point Spotlight’s index process (mds_stores) restarted and never properly reconnected to the main daemon (mds), so search kept working off the old index while nothing new made it in. ...