I couldn’t find a public API, but Metadata.framework defines 
_MDConfigCopyStoreInformation(NSString *path). It returns an dictionary 
containing the key “CurrentlyScanning”, which you might find useful.

Saagar Jha

> On Mar 18, 2017, at 09:37, sqwarqDev <sqwarq...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 18 Mar 2017, at 23:05, Jerome Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
>> 
>> To generalize your question, you want to reverse-engineer some other app to 
>> reveal some status information. I’ve had to do this a couple times.
> 
> Thanks for the thought, but my question was really just a sanity check to 
> make sure that there isn’t an already existing public API I might have missed 
> that a developer could use to query the status of mds. 
> 
> Any kind of guesswork about what files may or may not be open when mds is 
> indexing would be a bit too hit and miss for what I need.
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> 
> Phil
> @sqwarq
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