{"id":48557,"date":"2025-07-21T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48557"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:11:48","slug":"spotlight-indexing-running-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/spotlight-indexing-running-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight Indexing Running Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iboysoft.com\/tips\/macos-sequoia-spotlight-bug.html\">Jenny Zeng<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114891109063392576\">John Gordon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/iboysoft.com\/tips\/macos-sequoia-spotlight-bug.html\"><p>Several users have reported a bug on macOS Sequoia regarding Spotlight indexing writing a huge amount of data. Consequently, they are experiencing a <a href=\"https:\/\/iboysoft.com\/howto\/macos-system-data-huge.html\">large System Data on Mac<\/a> and rapid SSD wear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>She recommends deleting <tt>\/.Spotlight-V100<\/tt> and <tt>~\/Library\/Metadata\/CoreSpotlight<\/tt>. I&rsquo;ve always use <code>mdutil<\/code> to reset Spotlight, but I&rsquo;ve now seen several people recommend that deleting the folders works better.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/iboysoft.com\/tips\/macos-sequoia-spotlight-bug.html\">\n<p>To prevent Spotlight runs wild on indexing again, you can stop it from indexing your internal disk with the following steps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/fixing-optimize-storage\/\">Fixing &ldquo;Optimize Storage&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/fixing-mediaanalysisd-storage-and-cpu-use\/\">Fixing mediaanalysisd Storage and CPU Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/invasive-spotlight-indexing\/\">Invasive Spotlight Indexing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/pruning-ios-system-data\/\">Pruning iOS &ldquo;System Data&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Zeng (via John Gordon): Several users have reported a bug on macOS Sequoia regarding Spotlight indexing writing a huge amount of data. Consequently, they are experiencing a large System Data on Mac and rapid SSD wear. She recommends deleting \/.Spotlight-V100 and ~\/Library\/Metadata\/CoreSpotlight. I&rsquo;ve always use mdutil to reset Spotlight, but I&rsquo;ve now seen several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-21T19:46:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"fbe4a7e6-d650-471a-b9be-03b9bb00971e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-21T20:31:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A--Sn5tZQRxq5vgO5uwCXHg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,500,30,2598,1042,1235],"class_list":["post-48557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-launchd","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-spotlight","tag-system-integrity-protection"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48564,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48557\/revisions\/48564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}