09-24-2021, 02:19 PM
Sarcany wrote:
Could try completely clearing the Spotlight indexes.
Mojave is the last OS you can really do it on.
In the Terminal...
sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
Reboot your Mac, then run...
sudo mdutil -a -i on
Give it a few hours to rebuild indexes. Maybe overnight.
Do some searches to confirm that Spotlight is working.
And then check the Memory and CPU usage again.
I can't get past your second command (sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100) ... it gives me an "operation not permitted" error.
Edit: but if the purpose of the second command is to delete the Spotlight index, I'm using Onyx now to cause it to rebuild the index... we'll see if that works.