Spotlight Indexing (MacOS)

Is anyone aware of a way to get Spotlight to index a google drive mount?
I'm up to several thousand files at this point, so spotlight is becoming increasingly appealing/necessary.

There was an earlier thread on this but it was closed due to inactivity.
(That user referenced "Google Drive File System" but I think they maybe meant file stream? Unsure of what they were referring to...)

Getting rclone to mount to /Volumes like other MacFUSE apps would be a step in the right direction, as most guides are for network filesystems mounted in that location, but I can't make this work either. As I can't use mdutil on an individual folder, the fact that it is broken when I try to run it on what the filesystem sees as, e.g.

~/Desktop/rclone

makes sense. Sort of.

P.S. support here is awesome; you guys are great.

Actually this came up before on the forum

I think you can find out how to do it in the OSXFUSE docs

I've had some success with using the Commander One file manager app. It's not the same as a spotlight index, but at minimum my Google Drive (crypt) is now searchable.

What I gleaned from their docs is that spotlight will not index volumes not mounted under /Volumes

I don't think it's possible for rclone to do that. Mojave will not allow a directory to persist in /Volumes unless it was put there by the system (i.e. not created with mkdir /Volumes/rclonemountpoint).

So unless there's a way to make that happen... I don't think mdutil will work in this instance.

That said, it would be cool if rclone could mount to /Volumes ha.

:frowning:

Any idea what that would involve?

What makes you think that doesn't work now?

gcrypt:         16Ti    0Bi   16Ti     0%       0 1000000000    0%   /Volumes/Test
textere@seraph ~ %

I think if you can add this fuse option for Mac, it would work as it wants it to be local to index.

Yeah, the fuse option local totally fixes it but you do need to run cache-mode writes as well:

textere@seraph bin % sudo ./rclone cmount gcrypt: /Volumes/Test --allow-other -o local
2019/11/23 11:48:49 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/0.indexIds: WriteFileHandle: Truncate: Can't change size without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:04 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/psid.db: WriteFileHandle.Write: can't seek in file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:10 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/indexState: WriteFileHandle: Can't open for write without O_TRUNC on existing file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:10 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/psid.db: WriteFileHandle: Can't open for write without O_TRUNC on existing file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:10 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/psid.db: WriteFileHandle: Can't open for write without O_TRUNC on existing file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:10 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/0.indexIds: WriteFileHandle: Truncate: Can't change size without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:16 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/psid.db: WriteFileHandle: Can't open for write without O_TRUNC on existing file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes
2019/11/23 11:49:16 ERROR : .Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/4DD496ED-DF24-43E7-8E02-F1027EA2DCAB/psid.db: WriteFileHandle: Can't open for write without O_TRUNC on existing file without --vfs-cache-mode >= writes

Is what I see when I check the mount:

gcrypt: on /Volumes/Test (osxfuse, local, synchronous)

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