How to Force Spotlight to Reindex a Drive
To reindex your root drive, follow these 5 commands.
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1 sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1 cd / sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100 sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
To determine the size of your Spotlight databases seeĀ https://ucsd-igpp.atlassian.net/wiki/x/mbpt