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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: mark hunte on Jun 13, '05 06:50:29PM

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Spotlight: How to re-index files and folders
Want to re-index a file or folder—or even an entire volume—for Spotlight (part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger)? Just do this:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
Click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag a file, a folder, or even an entire volume (your hard drive) to the list.
Remove the item or volume you just added.
Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list

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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: axman6 on Jul 26, '05 03:00:04AM
Hello everyone, It seems to me that i have arather unique problem with spotlight. like for other people, it doesn't work. so i had a look around on the net and first found the help doc from apple on how to get spotlight to reindex a drive, just drop it in the privacy tab and then remove it. but it didn't show up (and i do know it can take some time for it to appear there so i waited quite some time) but sadly it never showed up. so i looked some more and found out about the command line tools like
mdutil
and
mdimport
. i thought to my self i'd done it, i'd found that answer. so i tried things like
mdutil -E /
which said "
mdutil -E /                         
/:
        Error, no index found for volume.
and
mdimport -f -d 2 /
. looked cool, lots of stuff being put on the screen, but all it was saying was "
mdimport[3591] _MDItemCreateFileSystemObject() failed for XXX
for every single file. now i really don't know what to do. when we first installed tiger it worked fine(ish) for a while and then it stoped working. please give me some suggestions for this, because this is one of the most useful features of tiger and i'd really love it if it worked. if you have a brillient ides, please e-mail me at axman6@gmail.com. Thanks heaps, Al.

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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: axman6 on Jul 26, '05 03:00:20AM
Hello everyone, It seems to me that i have arather unique problem with spotlight. like for other people, it doesn't work. so i had a look around on the net and first found the help doc from apple on how to get spotlight to reindex a drive, just drop it in the privacy tab and then remove it. but it didn't show up (and i do know it can take some time for it to appear there so i waited quite some time) but sadly it never showed up. so i looked some more and found out about the command line tools like
mdutil
and
mdimport
. i thought to my self i'd done it, i'd found that answer. so i tried things like
mdutil -E /
which said "
mdutil -E /                         
/:
        Error, no index found for volume.
and
mdimport -f -d 2 /
. looked cool, lots of stuff being put on the screen, but all it was saying was "
mdimport[3591] _MDItemCreateFileSystemObject() failed for XXX
for every single file. now i really don't know what to do. when we first installed tiger it worked fine(ish) for a while and then it stoped working. please give me some suggestions for this, because this is one of the most useful features of tiger and i'd really love it if it worked. if you have a brilliant ides, please e-mail me at axman6@gmail.com. Thanks heaps, Al.

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10.4: Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
Authored by: UberFu on Jan 20, '07 08:38:56PM

THIS WORKS GREAT_ I DRAGGED MY HD OVER TO THE SPOTLIGHT PRIVACY SCREEN - CLOSED OUT OF SPOTLIGHT BACK TO THE MAIN SYS PREFS SCREEN - THEN CLOSED SYS PREFS DOWN_

RELAUNCHED SYS PREFS AND WENT BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT_

DELETED OUT THE HD ICON FROM THE PRIVACY SCREEN AND CLOSED OUT THE SYS PREFS_

FOR A MINUTE I DIND'T THINK THIS DID ANYTHING UNTIL I REALIZED MY SYSTEM SLOWED WAY DOWN_ CHANGING APPS - LOADING WEBPAGES SWITTCHING WINDOWS WITHIN THE SAME APP_



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