diff --git a/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh b/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
index b4907ca0..bc3a2c85 100755
--- a/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
+++ b/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
@@ -2,14 +2,17 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017 The Qt Company Ltd.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only
 
+# Allow retry in case mdutil fails with first tries
+set +e
+
 disableSpotlight() {
     # Disable spotlight and and stop indexing
-    sudo mdutil -a -i off
-    sudo mdutil -a -i off /
+    sudo mdutil -a -i off || return 1
+    sudo mdutil -a -i off / || return 1
     # Disable spotlight indexing /Volumes
-    sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes
+    sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes || return 1
     # Erase spotlight index
-    sudo mdutil -E /
+    sudo mdutil -E / || return 1
 }
 
 # Disabling spotlight tends to be flaky, add some retry