I have a 2TB external Samsung SDD drive which has most of my work on it. Spotlight is not able to find things on it. However, Finder search does. Here is an example screenshot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134529144@N07/shares/gG8d88
It shows that I have done a spotlight search for "Episode 5" and there are no results for movies on my drive.
I do the same search in Finder and it does show the movie I'm looking for.
When I search for files that live on my internal hard drive, the spotlight results are consistent with the Finder search results.
I have tried adding the drive to the Spotlight Privacy pane, closing the System Preferences, then removing it, to force Spotlight to index the drive. That does not change things.
I tried deleting the folder /Volumes/2TB SSD Encrypted/.Spotlight-V100/ and then reindexing, and that does not change things.
Anybody know what's going on here?