Leopard's Spotlight doesn't search...

Exebit · #1 November 2nd, 2007, 05:42 PM

Hi there!

I've got a problem with Leopard Server...
It's the first time that I run a server version.
Everything works great! But... Spotlight...
Spotlight doesn't search anything on my internal HD. :-( On my external HD (connected with FireWire) it works!

I already deleted the .Spotlight Folder on my startup disk... But that doesn't help... I added my HD to the "privacy" Tab in Spotlight and deleted it after that... But that doesn't help, too...

Has anybody of you an idea how to make this work?
Thanks a lot!

Greez, Mike.

**Giaguara** · #2 November 3rd, 2007, 05:37 AM

Does mdfind work from Terminal?
If that works, then spotlight process would be fine, and only the implementation be the issue..

Exebit · #3 November 3rd, 2007, 12:25 PM

No... I fixed the problem... Spotlight didn't index the entire computer... With a Terminal action I could fix this...

But thanks for your idea! :-)

**Giaguara** · #4 November 4th, 2007, 08:02 AM

Ah, excellent

By default it's supposed to keep large chunks of hard drive unindexed to protect the users from themselves.... ("oh what's this core services? I never use this anyway, I could just remove it to save space...")
Do you remember which command you used to fix it? May be nice to know for whoever else would run to this problem and then be able to find the answers here...

Exebit · #5 November 5th, 2007, 07:33 AM

Yeah!

Here's the command: sudo mdutil -i on /
This works great! =)

Nekesu04 · #6 December 17th, 2007, 03:49 AM

Pretty much just made an account to thank you Exebit for the command, it worked great!

Someone else suggested removing the battery to reset the PRAM (In my G5) and I nearly destroyed the battery holder inside, and that solution didn't even work.

smk001 · #7 February 13th, 2008, 02:45 PM

Thanks for the terminal command, it worked great here too!