I came across this post when searching for a solution to this problem. It IS a byproduct of spotlight indexing. My "Entire Message" facility was disabled and spotlight was doing its thing. It just finished, and the facility has returned.
#If your like me and for some reason disabled #the metadata server and then forgot about it then #make sure that metadata server runs on startup sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist #and now enable metadata for the root filesystem sudo mdutil -i on / #in my case spotlight began to rebuild indexes at this point, but you may need to run sudo mdutil -E /
#Wait for spotlight to finish and enjoy #Btw, this can be copy pasted into Terminal.app #Hopefully this helps the futures frustrated souls
Mail.app uses the Spotlight index to search "Entire Message' -- was Spotlight somehow re-indexing>
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ReplyDeleteI came across this post when searching for a solution to this problem. It IS a byproduct of spotlight indexing. My "Entire Message" facility was disabled and spotlight was doing its thing. It just finished, and the facility has returned.
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Thank you for the info on Spotlight indexing. My "entire message" was grayed out, so I checked Spotlight, and, sure enough, it was indexing.
ReplyDeleteAs awesome as this solution sounds, I have this problem and spotlight isn't doing anything.
ReplyDelete#If your like me and for some reason disabled
ReplyDelete#the metadata server and then forgot about it then
#make sure that metadata server runs on startup
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
#and now enable metadata for the root filesystem
sudo mdutil -i on /
#in my case spotlight began to rebuild indexes at this point, but you may need to run
sudo mdutil -E /
#Wait for spotlight to finish and enjoy
#Btw, this can be copy pasted into Terminal.app
#Hopefully this helps the futures frustrated souls