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Reply With QuoteFirst is the free Terminal ( /Applications/Utilities/Terminal) you can copy and paste the command: sudo mdutil -E / and provide your Admin password.
This will force Spotlight to re-index your Home folder. To re-index the whole drive first type (in Terminal): cd /Volumes/TheNameofYourHardDrive/ then type the: sudo mdutil -E / .
Lastly if you want a GUI application that is free that you can do this is download Onyx and it has a section to rebuild Spotlight's index as well as maintenance routines that a Mac user should do once every three months.
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Thread: Spotlight-indexing?
- April 24th, 2009, 07:44 AM #1
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Spotlight-indexing? Simple question? how can I tell if spotlight has indexed main hd? Also, does it index my 2 external hds; one is a Maxtor 1 teribyte hd-other is a 500g.
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- April 24th, 2009, 11:29 AM #2
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- April 24th, 2009, 01:01 PM #3
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Spotlight Thanks - Satcomer for the help!-I do have onyx and I forgot you can use it for indexing rebuild.
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