From the person web page:
-i (on|off) Flip indexing on or off.
-d Disable Highlight exercise for quantity (re-enable utilizing -i on).
If I execute mdutil -i off -vvv
on a quantity:
/System/Volumes/Knowledge/Volumes/RamDisk:
2023-04-10 20:25:46.732 mdutil[29838:28666786] mdutil disabling Highlight: /System/Volumes/Knowledge/Volumes/RamDisk -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
Indexing disabled.
If I execute mdutil -d -vvv
on a quantity:
/System/Volumes/Knowledge/Volumes/RamDisk:
2023-04-10 20:25:33.361 mdutil[29809:28666487] mdutil disabling Highlight: /System/Volumes/Knowledge/Volumes/RamDisk -> kMDConfigSearchLevelOff
Indexing and looking out disabled.
From my expertise it looks like each disables Highlight exercise on the goal quantity. What’s the distinction between these two choices?