Spotlight indexing stalled for 4 days after a fresh install of Ventura 13.3.1

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Spotlight indexing stalled for 4 days after a fresh install of Ventura 13.3.1

4 days ago I performed a fresh reinstall of Ventura 13.3.1 after wiping my drive and transferring data via Time Machine and noticed that Indexing has stalled and has not moved.

Is there a way to force quit spotlight and start it up again? a couple days ago I toggled all the spotlight switches off, then restarted, then turned the switches back on only to find the same result after a day.

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MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Apr 20, 2023 11:05 PM

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Apr 26, 2023 9:02 AM in response to Randall_2023

I was persistent in attempting to fix Spotlight Indexing, but noticed all these other issues for some of my 3rd Party Apps like Autocad and so yesterday I wiped the drive and reinstalled everything, this time without using a Time Machine backup and wallah everything does work.

Something about reinstalling from Time Machine backup reinstalls the preexisting issues whereas installing fresh applications and importing data from iCloud Drive seems to have no issues.

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Dec 15, 2023 1:51 AM in response to RYE-STAR

I agree. It's very hard to tell because when something takes days potentially and you have a couple of inch of status bar... you can wait half a day and realise "oh nothing has happened". They need a better system for this.

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Apr 23, 2023 5:18 AM in response to RYE-STAR

Have you tried doing this while still in Safemode?

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

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Apr 23, 2023 7:06 AM in response to Randall_2023

I actually tried this and thought it was working but realized it’s still stuck in the same position

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Spotlight indexing stalled for 4 days after a fresh install of Ventura 13.3.1

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