Spotlight "Off"

[skunkworker]

I can reindex spotlight but it never returns results. I need Help to turn it back "On". Any Suggestions?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Did you specifically turn if "off?" What's in your "Privacy" list in the Spotlight System Preference pane?

[skunkworker]

Nope, i Never turned it "OFF". My HD filled up not to long ago because of a backup/disk write error. But now i have enough space for it to operate right. I have nothing in my "privacy" tab in Spotlight.Prefpane . And actually if i search for "apple" before i would get 53,000 results but now none.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Hmmm... what is the total size of your hard drive, and how much of that is free? If you have more than 80% to 85% of your hard drive filled up, that could be the reason -- HFS+ can potentially have problems with fragmentation and data corruption with hard drives that don't keep 15% or more free space available at all times.

If you have plenty of space, a la above, try adding your hard drive to the "Privacy" list, restarting, then removing the hard drive from the list. That will force Spotlight to reindex (is this how you were forcing a reindex before?) and may help.

[skunkworker]

The Total Size of my HDs are a 160 "Main" and a 250 (partitined to the equalivent of a 160, and a 90) My main HD has 75 gbs left, the patritioned 160 has 35gbs left and the 90 has 21gbs left. I did everything by the command line. Il try restarting after adding my main hd to the list. but usually it wont go on the list

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Ah, plenty of free space.

If it won't go into the list, I would suspect some sort of permissions problem perhaps -- have you tried repairing the disk and repairing permissions?

[Decado]

if you have not already done it, add your hard-drive to the privacy list and then remove it from the list. this forces a reindex. helped on my fathers powerbook.

[skunkworker]

It still won't show up if you drag the disk to the spotlight tab