I discovered that Spotlight is not indexing my Cube.
It appears files can be searched in Finder, but they’re not showing up in the Spotlight search bar. From what I understand this is because macOS is not creating an index file on the Cube.
Tags are also behaving strangely. I see a gray tag on one folder but not a red tag on another folder — even though if I Get Info, the tag is applied. Also, these tagged files are not showing up in the sidebar tag collections, which is something I need working.
I found the following command to initiate Spotlight indexing:
mdutil -i on /Volumes/mountpoint
My RAID5 name is “Cube”, so I just replace “mountpoint” with “Cube” and it gives me a message that the command works. Then I see a progress bar in the Spotlight search, as if it’s indexing.
But I still can’t find Cube files via Spotlight.
When I use CMD + SHIFT + .(period) to view hidden files, all of my hard drives have hidden Spotlight files like “Spotlight-V100.” But on the Cube, there are zero hidden files.
So how can I get Spotlight to index my ZimaCube?