mddiagnose —
gather information to aid in diagnosing Spotlight
issues
mddiagnose |
[-f path]
[-e path]
[-p path]
[-n] |
The mddiagnose tool gathers system and
Spotlight information in order to assist Apple when investigating issues
related to Spotlight. A great deal of information is harvested, spanning
system state, system and Spotlight details.
- A spindump of the system
- Several seconds of top output
- Individual samples of mds and mdworker
- Paths for all files used by Spotlight to contain its database on every
volume
- All system logs
- All spin and crash reports for the following processes:
- Recent spin and crash reports for the following processes, for all local
users:
- The query text and result quality statistics for recent Spotlight
searches. The actual results of the searches are not gathered
- General information about disks and mounted network shares
- The path of the last file indexed by each mdworker process on behalf of
Spotlight. The path of the last file which resulted in a crash of an
mdworker process. In each case, only the path is gathered, not the
contents of the file
- Spotlight configuration for each volume currently mounted on your system.
This includes the path and size of all files used internally by Spotlight
as well as a listing of paths that are user excluded from indexing
- Comprehensive information about internal state of Spotlight
- No user data is harvested from any volume
- No paths or files found by any search are returned
- No database storage or user files are returned
- No authentication credentials are harvested from the system
-h- Print full usage.
-m- Gather a subset of the normal report.
-f
path- Write the diagnostic to the specified path.
-p
path- Gather Spotlight permissions and filter information. Run as owner of that
file.
mddiagnose exits with status 0 if there
were no internal errors encountered during the diagnostic, or >0 when an
error unrelated to external state occurs or unusable input is provided by
the user.