thank you for the reply! I did it and when I told it to erase, it responded 'Indexing disabled' nothing about erasing. checking Activity viewer after I turned indexing back on there is little to no activity from any 'md' process most I've seen is 0.6 for a second on 'mds'
-sam > > At 10:40 AM -0400 10/29/2008, Sam Macomber wrote: >> Server is 10.5, xserve G5, files are stored on an xRAID, shared >> through AFP and spotlight search for the share point in question is >> turned on. >> >> problem is we've got small JPG versions of every image shot here >> since >> 2003, stored in folders by year/month At least once a day the >> photographers need to find one of these images going by the file >> name. But when searched most files don't come up, usually just ones >> shot this year. > > Sounds like your spotlight indexes are foo. Try rebuild them by > first disabling Spotlight's indexing on that volume then erase the > index then re-enable indexing. > > In Terminal, use these three commands: > > sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/fred > sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/fred > sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/fred > > Do this from an admin account. The first will ask for your admin > password. Replace "fred" with the actual volume's name. > > Be sure to let things sit afterward, to give Spotlight time to > complete the indexing process. Do not shutdown or sleep that Mac > until it's done. You can monitor the process using Activity Monitor > - search on "md". > > HTH, > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
