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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on May 25, '05 10:27:24PM

For people uncomfortable with using command line, etc., another way to delete a volume's Spotlight index is to open the Spotlight prefpane, and drag the volume to Spotlight's "Privacy" window. The index will be deleted immediately. To get Spotlight to re-index the volume, remove it from the Privacy list.



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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: elmimmo on Jun 09, '05 06:50:08PM

If you do that with a folder, Spotlight apparently will not reindex the folder's contents. I tried with ~/Library/Mail/ and after removing it from the privacy list I could not get a single result in Mail when searching in "Entire Message"



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