spotlight

I've posted this in several other forums today to no avail. Hopefully someone here can help me. I've just installed 10.5 and the .2 update in the past couple of days. Everything was working okay and then it appeared that Spotlight started to hang on something. Once it started hanging, weird...

Using Eudora, how can I get the spotlight comments window to display the sender's email address and email subject line for attachments? Thanks.

Wanted to search for a thread on this, but this lovely website has no search option! Anyway, we are having an issue with Tiger searching Windows 2003 shares. Cannot search the shares via "Find" OR "SPOTLIGHT" It's a known issue and I have yet to find a solution and Apple has not...

The italic i in a circle logo on the right of the found item line, when "show all" has been activitated, is not active. It is faint, and will not show where the found file is located. Spotlight is finding files OK. I'm running 10.4.3 on G5 1.8 GHz. Any suggestions? Brian

Hi For some reason spotlight has stopped working. im running 10.4.3 on a dual 1.8ghz G5. It used to work fine but i hadnt used it in a while and now it doesnt work at all. It always shows "no results found". also when i type in the name of something it doesnt actually do anything at...

Hi there. Recently got Tiger, and am surprised to find that apparently Spotlight doesn't work with the names of photos in iPhoto. :eek: If you name a picture outside of iPhoto (ie. physically change the filename in Finder) then it will recognise it, but if you name the picture in iPhoto...

hi, my nephew has just been given an ibook (1.33 g4 60gb hd 512mb ram), and it won't boot up properly. It starts up ok, gets to the default blue desktop but when the finder tries to launch it gets stuck, only the spotlight icon is visible and the spinninng umbrella is there constantly...

I quite often connect an external Firewire drive from work to my Mac at home, but every time I do so Spotlight immediately starts to index it. This is really annoying as firstly I have no need for it to be indexed at home and secondly Spotlight is unavailable when it's indexing. Does anyone...

Suddenly, after working perfectly, Tiger started acting up. Spotlight and the date is flashing on and off. Every once in a while it corrects itself for an hour or so. When this is happening, my iPod is no longer recognized by iTunes. Strange connection! What do I do? Thanks...

I am a recent switcher back to mac, and am wondering whether there is anything out there that has search features similar to copernic desktop search for the PC -- where you can see the keywords in context (I believe that google desktop does this as well). Spotlight does not seem to have this...

I use the key commands in illustrator / photoshop all the time and when i do the "option / apple / spacebar" or "apple / spacebar" commands to zoom out, the spotlight window(s) open. I've tried opening / changing the key commands numerous times, as well as disabling them with no luck (they...

Hello all! When I do a spotlight search from the desktop, the old cmd-F in Tiger. It gives you the options: Servers | Computer | Home | Others... If you want a specific server volume on your network, you have to hit "Others..." and specify the volume via the pop-up menu. Is there a...

Just like to give props to Spotlight. I LOVE SPOTLIGHT. I can't live without it. Lovin' it!

I have heard there is some trouble with OS X-Tiger hot syncing a Palm Tungsten E using Entourage and Entourage conduits (and in the background of course the Palm software). Spotlight was suggested as being the trouble-maker, i.e., it should be deactivated in Palm and Entourage. Any experience...

My Spotlight, no matter what I give it finds absolutely nothing. This includes searching from within folders. Have tried to add/remove my HD, in order to re-index, to "Privacy" as suggested elsewhere, but nothing happens or appears on the list, when I do so. Spotlight worked a while back after...

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

Spotlight lists files that are in other users areas. just being able to see the filenames of all the other users' files undermines their privacy. Can spotlight be prevented from being so nosy? I can switch out all my private files under the preferences of course - but then I can't use...

My spotlight is severely corrupted. I have tried everything I have found to fix the problem but notthing has worked yet. Is there anyway to reinstall it. Awhile ago my disk ran out of space, could that have anything todo with it? any help is needed badly. Even the finder search won't work.

Whenever I try to reindex spotlight i always get errors. Like it couldn't checkin with the server and it never works. I need Help!

I would like to know if anyone else has been faced with the following issue: I use spotlight all the time to navigate my hard drive and quickly start up apps. Every so often my spotlight will fail to initiate a search for keywords. When this happens, I have to go to the Spotlight Privacy...