Spotlight not finding DTP-Files regardless Spotlight Index

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I usually use the Alfred Workflow [DEVONthink Portal](https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/19935-devonthink-portal/), but I would like to be able to find individual documents with a quick search without triggering a complex DTP search.

Although I have enabled Spotlight Indexing for my DEVONthink databases, files in my databases do not appear in the search results when I search for them (both in Spotlight and Alfred and I also have specified DT-Files in Alfred to include in search results). I have already rebuilt the index several times and also deleted all files/folders in ~/Library/Metadata/com.devon-technologies.think/ and rebuilt the index. I have not specified any exceptions in the Spotlight settings that would exclude a search. What am I doing wrong?

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Which version of macOS and of DEVONthink do you use? Are the files in your databases indexed or imported?

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Latest Sequoia. All files are imported. I now reset the Spotlight index and hope that somehow this might be the issue.

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Ok, rebuilding Spotlight index seemed to work which rules out an error from DT’s and even my side (phew). Also now everything is shown in Alfred. I added Search Scope of ~/Library/Metadata/com.devon-technologies.think/ to Alfred and then it worked there as well (typical user error).

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