How to use Spotlight’s metadata file utilities in macOS

Spotlight is Apple’s smart search indexer for macOS. Here’s how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents.

Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device and silently indexes and scans the contents of your documents, so when you search for something, it can find results quickly.

The main background daemon in Spotlight is called corespotlightd, and it can consume up to 8-10% of CPU time when running at full-throttle.

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