spotlight constantly indexing and re-index every time after reboot

 i fixed the problem that spotlight constantly indexing issue.

symptoms: spotlight never achieved 100% indexing, constantly re-index, search results random and not useful

open terminal app, enter:

sudo mdutil -i off /

sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100

sudo mdutil -i on /

sudo mdutil -E /

then it will take time for spotlight to re-index everything. it will reach 100% index.

after that, every time after reboot, spotlight will re-scan everything. it might take up to two hours. ( i have two 4tb drives.) and then it will reach 100%.
the search results are good again. 


thanks to this post. this is where i found the solution. 



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