Macbook running very slow because of corrupted search index (Spotlight)

Submitted by Jochus on Wed, 29/10/2014 - 22:36 | Posted in: Mac
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My Macbook was recently running very slow. I've noticed Spotlight was constantly rebuilding the index. By executing the following lines of code in my terminal, the corrupted index was fixed:

$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

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