Spotlight

problems with indexing , not indexing, stopped indexing.

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

2)
Open Terminal
Type - not copy! - the following but wait a few second between them:

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

If, after a few minutes, Spotlight is still not indexing, try running this command, followed by the three commands above:

sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

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