At 2:25 PM -0400 3/19/2012, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote
It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt.
Here's a good site for fixing problems like that:
<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html>
this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so.
Inside the SPOTLIGHT preferences I 'prevented' all the attached and
internal drives, then undid that. It is now indexing, the SPOTLIGHT
icon is active, and when I click on that icon it indeed tells me
it's doing its job. My FINDER results for searching for certain
files has been Hugely Slow and flakey. Now I think I know why.
Ok. That may work, but it might not. Dragging a volume into the
Splotchlight system preferences creates a filter that prevents those
items from being returned in results. It *does not* physically erase
a corrupted index.
So, if that doesn't work, use the mdutil directly, as described in
that article and the various threads on this list. (which would be
the point of me suggesting you check our archives, in the first
place).
- Dan.
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