On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Dan wrote:
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.
hmmnn...
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).
I got right at the archives and was going through the descriptions of
both that and other references to working this through the command-
line approach (one that always gets my fear factor working!). So far
the system seems to be seriously working on doing things right. The
same activity on the drives, but the SPOTLIGHT icon is ALWAYS showing
that it knows what;s happening. this NEVER happened before.
Fingers Crossed.
JV
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