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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
You can also do this from the command line with the mdutil command. Launch Terminal and enter:
and the index file will be erased and rebuilt. The "/" stands for the boot volume; you can substitute the pathname of any volume here. Substitute "-s" for "-E" to show if indexing is enabled on the volume, and "-i on" or "-i off" to enable or disable indexing. Note that mdutil must be run as root; hence the sudo. You can also use mdimport to index a subset of files:
would index your Documents folder and
would index all AppleWorks files on your computer.
will list all installed metadata importers.
10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
For some reason, Spotlight doesn't work on my System Preferences. No matter what I type in, everything dims. Anyone has a solution to this?
10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Thanks for the info on forcing Spotlight to re-index, but it STILL can't find lots of stuff on my hard drive, both folders and files.
10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Also useful is the -f flag: I keep all my music on my iPod; Apple (probably in an attempt satisfy the RIAA etc etc etc) hasn't allowed Spotlight to index your iPod's music (although all other files on the iPod are indexed), even when specifying the correct directory. Fortunately the 'force' flag bypasses this inconvenience:
10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
I was having a similar problem where much of my content wasn't showing up through Spotlight. So, I entered the "sudo mdutil -E /" command as suggested. Spotlight immediately when through a reindex process that took approximately an hour to complete. But, once it was done, I discovered that none of my imported mail could be accessed (the messages appear to still be there, but they don't show up under the Mail application).
10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
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