If the index on spotlight is like most it will have grown over time to
include all the added files, photo's, music, documents, etc. etc. and
in my case I had done a complete install of Leopard from scratch,
which means I had tons of files that I had moved to the hard drive
from Tiger. As I had the time to go through them and eliminate all
that I didn't need I reduced the storage on the drive by many many
gig's. so those had been indexed and were no longer needed.
It could be that Spotlight would then remove those from the index and
reduce the size of the index to match the size of the hard drive, I
don't know, but just in case the old index still had all those
thousands of files that were now gone I wanted to rid my machine of
the old index and start a new one that would be much smaller.
John
On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
A question on the side: When you do a new index on spotlight, what
does that mean?
Marta
On Aug 26, 2008, at 21:58 PM, Profile wrote:
Lee, I know to guys like you that know everything about the x's and
o's and all between this would be simple, but to someone that runs
around with a piece of straw between his teeth I am having a hard
time
finding an invisible file. So, how do I go about seeing something I
can't see?
John
On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Profile wrote:
I have moved and removed many files on this hard drive, so I wanted
to
do a new index of Spotlight. I have looked all over this thing
and I
can't find how to have the old index trashed and a new one created
fresh.
Every volume has an invisible file at its root called .Spotlight-
V100. Delete it and Spotlight will go to work.
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