Can't locate /.Spotlight-V100 anywhere, spotlight has incomplete results even after index rebuild

I tried everything I could find on StackExchange and the internet, including the official apple-suggested approach of removing adding and removing the volume to privacy https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716 . This question sums up most of the things I tried Spotlight doesn't show applications also this answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/337782/146629

One thing many tutorials mention is that you should run sudo rm -rf ./Spotlight* or ./Spotlight-V100

However, I don't have it in root and I asked around friends with newest macOS and they did not find it in root either. I would like to give it a last shot and remove that index manually before I give up and try a system restore with Time Machine, but I can't seem to find the indices anywhere. Have they moved in recent versions? Any hints on how to make spotlight work again without system restore?

I'm on 10.15.6 (19G2021)

Solution 1:

Just tested on a macOS Catalina 10.15.6 system, used the following command in Terminal to remove the .Spotlight-V100 directory:

sudo rm -r /System/Volumes/Data/.Spotlight-V100

It deleted the .Spotlight-V100 directory and in less than a minute recreated it and started indexing the system again.