View source for W:Blog/20130321 Spotlight fix

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Spotlight in OS X has always been of a mixed blessing. Now on OS 10.7.5 it's no different. So it just broken again. 

 sudo mdutil -E VOLUME
 sudo mdutil -i on/off VOLUME

didn't work with error: 'Error: unexpected indexing state.  kMDConfigSearchLevelTransitioning' or 'Error: Index is already changing state.  Please try again in a moment.'

This comment thread of this post [http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/20/disable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/ here] suggested

 sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
 
 sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

which re-enabled spotlight! Thanks!!

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