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Updating the Locate Database:
Authored by: scoog on Jan 27, '03 11:41:32PM

In your Terminal app., type -
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
Hit return, give up your password, it's all right, the system already knows it ;-]
Of course you can do this from within Locator, the cocoa app also.
locate will add to the database, all files on all drives&disks attached at the time of update.
If you need to do some searches on a dense CDR two days later, there you are, nearly instant results.
I like it.



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