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Enable Spotlight search on Mac

Spotlight doesn't work

Method 1

Navigate to

  1. System Preferences
  2. Spotlights
  3. Privacy
  4. Add your local disk to the list
  5. Remove your local disk from the list The above steps will reindex spotlight on the selected disk

Method 2

In terminal run:

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sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -a -i on

Above commands fixed everything for me