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10.4: Mail search breaks when excluded from Spotlight
Authored by: quaeler on Nov 15, '05 12:25:16AM

i actually do have this problem. specifically, my mail is stored on an encrypted virtual volume. i've not told spotlight to ignore this volume, but apparently tiger ignores such volumes automatically.

i appreciate that, in general, my encrypted volume's contents are indexed when it's mounted, but the fact that i can't search any of my mail makes Mail.app pretty unusable..

i hope i'm missing something obvious... :- /



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10.4: Mail search breaks when excluded from Spotlight
Authored by: quaeler on Nov 15, '05 04:54:39AM

ok - so i'm somewhat wrong. spotlight did indeed search my mounted encrypted volume (though if i drag the volume onto the system preferences list of things not to index (or click '+' and Choose the volume itself) it won't add it to the list); however my mail itself isn't indexed.

perhaps it's because my mail is soft linked from ~/Library/Mail to the virtual drive and spotlight is funky with links?



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