At 7:04 AM -0500 2/11/2009, Linda wrote: >On Feb 8, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > >> I had a similar issue once. I had to reindex Spotlight completely. I >> opened Spotlight System Preference and under the Privacy tab using the >> "+" button added my entire HD to the excluded category. Then I >> highlighted the HD and used the "-" button to un-exclude it and it >> started reindexing, which took a long time. When it finished, I was OK >> for searches in Mail.app and Spotlight. > > >I gave [redoing spotlight index from GUI] a try but nothing improved.
Rebuilding the spotlight index using the GUI doesn't work if it's already corrupted, so try a bigger hammer -- fully turn off indexing (-i off), erase the index (-E), then turn indexing back on (-i on). From your administrator account, issue these three commands from Terminal: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/* They must be done exactly as-is - they are case sensitive. If you want, you can replace the "*" with a single disk volume's name, so as to affect only the index on that particular volume, instead of all your mounted volumes. Once that's done, let your system run - DO NOT shut it down or let it sleep until the mds and mdutil processes do their thing, then go back to being idle. >Could there be a corruption in the mail.app? I also can't [...] Perhaps. But the first step to debugging this is still to rebuild the spotlight index fully. - 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
