https://www.yasithfernando.com/tags/macos/Recent content in MacOS on Yasith FernandoHugoen-usFri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +1100https://www.yasithfernando.com/blog/spotlight-stopped-indexing/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +1100https://www.yasithfernando.com/blog/spotlight-stopped-indexing/<p>For a while Spotlight couldn&rsquo;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 <del>factory</del> kitchen :D), and at some point Spotlight&rsquo;s index process (<code>mds_stores</code>) restarted and never properly reconnected to the main daemon (<code>mds</code>), so search kept working off the old index while nothing new made it in.</p>