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10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: ProfGumby on Jan 31, '08 08:50:44PM

what was the -f option for mdimport intended to do??

when trying it it says it's obsoleted and does nothing.
man mdimport says the -f switch is obsolete in leopard and beyond, and not finding anything on the 'net about it;
just wondered if I should/could use a different option instead but don't know what it was for;
thanks;



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10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: pediger on Jan 31, '08 09:49:07PM

From the 10.4.11 man page:

-f Force mdimport to scan the files, bypassing path filtering rules.

I'm afraid I'll have to leave it to someone else to explain exactly what it does. (Ignore Privacy exclusions???)



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