spotlight stop working after power surge

[y10k]

The power was off for a while today and later when i restarted my imac, spotlight stops working.

Whatever i type into the search box, it will display no result.

I have used "sudo mdutil -E /" to reindex the whole harddrive but situation remains the same.


Any hint?

 

[bobw]

Try turning it off;

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1


Then remove the indexes;

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1

Physically remove the .Spotlight directories from the root of each drive.
• $ cd /
• $ sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100

Use mdutil again to turn indexing back on for each drive
• $ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1

 

[y10k]

Try turning it off;

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1


Then remove the indexes;

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1

Physically remove the .Spotlight directories from the root of each drive.
• $ cd /
• $ sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100

Use mdutil again to turn indexing back on for each drive
• $ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1

tried still not working

 

[Mikuro]

Have you tried running Disk Utility's Repair Disk and Repair Permissions routines?