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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
spotlight wouldn't find any of my iTunes tracks nomatter what I did. The same for some word documents. However, they both got indexed when I openned them in the finder (not when I played the tunes in iTunes). So I opened iTunes and minimized it (important or you'll have to leave your mac alone a while) and turned off the sound (you may like it but it's a pretty odd effect). Then ran the command below
Answer: mdimport path
I've had this problem and it REALLY bugged me because I wrote a spotlight driven music search for my website. TONS of results weren't showing up. The answer turned out to be simple though, and it was `mdimport ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music`. This does the same thing as your "open" trick, but without having to open every file. |
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