On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Linda wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Or you could just try the solution we presented. > > > I would try the solution if I knew what it meant. I have never done > anything like this. I don't even know where this is located. I know, I > sound pretty stupid here but I haven't messed with an OS since I left > OS9. I don't know anything about codes. Here <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/DSB.zip> Brand new program for the world: Dan's Spotlight Bodger, download it, unzip it, run it, it asks for your password, stops indexing, nukes your spotlight indexes, and starts indexing again. About 5 seconds after this finished running, my spotlight icon had the pulsing dot in it signifying that it was indexing away. Sigh...I have a LOT to index ...but they used to make engineers stand under bridges they designed the first time a full load went over, buess it's only right that programmers need to have their programs inflicted on them first :-) Let your computer run until it finishes, and that dot goes away. Your email should be searchable then. (Dan, this was less than 5 minutes work with Platypus. I'd have put on a fancy icon, but that would have taken ten minutes of :-) There is no help, no error messages, no nada, but this is a simple thing, what could go wrong? All it does is run the three lines of code that Dan posted earlier in this thread: #!/bin/sh mdutil -i stop /Volumes/* mdutil -E /Volumes/* mdutil -i start /Volumes/* Since the app itself takes care of the permissions stuff, I did not include the sudo part of the command. Since these commands work in both 10.4 and 10.5, this is functional in 10.4 and 10.5. Don't run it in 10.3 it go boom. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
