Hi Rhonda,
I have done that and Spolight is now working but no Mail Search as
before
so I did the Terminal Commands but still no Mail search available.
(Thunderbird search works fine but I feel more comfortable with Mail)
Regards, Rick.
On 13/06/2011, at 8:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi again Rick,
I probably should have warned you, that Spotlight 'Re-Indexing’
your Hard Drive, depending on how many and what kind of files you
have it can take upwards of an hour or two to re-index.
Let it complete the re-indexing before you test it.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 13/06/2011, at 8:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 13/06/2011, at 8:12 AM, Rick Armstrong wrote:
Hi Rhonda,
As you had mentioned from earlier email search problem,
correctly, that Spotlight may nave some corruption.
I have tried to rebuild unsucessfully, can you talk me through
again. When I go into Terminal and type: sudo mdutil -E /
After I have done this it shows (after a few seconds): Error, no
index found for volume.
(PS Spotlight was slow to find anything at all previously and now
has trouble search anything )
Thanks Rick,
Version 10.4.11 on G4 (long overdue for the big jump to an iMac 27”)
Good morning Rick,
OK, I think firstly before we go through the Terminal Commands
again, I would ask you to get Spotlight to ‘Re-Index’ your Hard
Drive.
To Re-Index your drive, do the following:
1. Open System Preferences > Spotlight and select the Privacy tab.
2. Drag your hard drive icon from the Desktop into the privacy list.
3. Click OK in the window that displays “Are you sure you want to
prevent Spotlight from searching in “/“?
4. Wait 10 seconds, and then remove the hard drive from the
privacy list (click the minus(-) button).
Give spotlight some time to re-index your drive before testing it
out.
The magnifying glass in the upper-right of your screen will pulse
during this time.
This forces Spotlight to Re-Index your Hard Drive.
Post back your results please.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
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