u/Fantastic_Zebra9886

So i bought a new Mac and I want to transfer all my files, mostly documents, over from my old Mac.

However, I was using indexing and spotlight search pretty heavily for my work. If, for example, I needed a specific document, I would rather search for certain keywords instead of searching for, say, the name of the document.

My old system (Monterey) was pretty good at this and almost always had me covered, I guess because the indexing files had been built up over the years.

I noticed a little drop in realibility after I upgraded my old machine to Seqouia.

But now on a new and more powerful machine, how would I go about making sure that the indexing is spot on again? Is there a proper way to initiate a "training" of some sorts?

Or does Spotlight maybe work entirely different in Tahoe? I read it got replaced?

Hat jemand Erfahrungen mit Grün-Datenrettung in Bremen bzw. Kiel? Oder mit Datenrettung_Hamburg an der Außenalster?

I have an external drive (HFS Format) that I use for TimeMachine Backups and some files.

TimeMachine was a little slow lately (worked fine though), so I decided to ask Diskutil to check the drive for potential errors (DriveDX reported that SMART values are perfectly fine).

Diskutil in fact returned an error, and said it could not verify the drive completely. From now on, I would be able to read from the drive, but TimeMachine wouldn't back up anymore, which is reasonable.

My attempts at running FSCK to fix the error failed, it could not read the catalog and would stop before attempting to fix anything.

Because I was stupid, i told FSCK to rebuild the catalog. My mistake. The rebuild attempt of course failed, and now the partition seems completely lost.

https://preview.redd.it/t8keu9lo4pxg1.png?width=565&format=png&auto=webp&s=4741db6e48dbb1a145a0dc0c04eb5f51fbb8a3d8

All the files still seem to be there, I can see them with disk drill. But the folder structure seems gone.

Is there any way of recovering this?

I thought, attempting to rebuild catalog tree means *attempting* first and writing second, but apparently FSCK starts writing a new catalog immediately, I should've researched this.