I have an app that uses MSMetadataQuery. As expected, this returns very fast 
results. However, there is an edge case when Spotlight chooses to re-index the 
whole disk (indicated in Spotlight's GUI by the blue progress bar underneath 
during a search).

When this happens my app’s search is severely delayed to the point where users 
think that it’s hung. 
Accordingly, I’d like to offer a warning to the user that the search may be 
lengthy whenever I detect that Spotlight is reindexing the disk. The question 
is how can this be determined?

mdutil has a status flag, but all this tells us is whether indexing is enabled 
for a named volume. It does not return anything about Spotlight’s current 
activity. 

Any suggestions?


Best


Phil
@sqwarq
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