Synopsis
mddiagnose -h
mddiagnose [-f path] [-e path] [-p path] [-n]
Description
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.
What mddiagnose Collects: • 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: mds mdworker
• Recent spin and crash reports for the following processes, for all local users: mds mdworker
• 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
What mddiagnose Doesn't Collect: • 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
Options
-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.
Exit Status
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.
Mac OS X 15 March 2011 Mac OS X