Some services can only be run when a MacBook Air or Pro is awake and running on mains (AC) power. Here’s a list, and what you can do to ensure their work still gets done.
Core Spotlight
How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.
All you need to know about the main services in iCloud, the limits imposed on them by Apple, and how access to them can be controlled.
Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.
Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.
It has its own folder in ~/Library, and no less than 7 of its own Private Frameworks. But what is it, and what does it do? This is as much as I know about it.
Indexing and search diagrammed, leading to the diagnosis of problems with Spotlight, and their resolution.
Apple’s Mail, Notes ad other apps now use Core Spotlight, which protects the privacy of their data, but stops search apps from doing their job. And worse.
The Eclectic Light Company 