I seem to have spoken too soon. I forgot that my email is on an external drive.
When I try various mdutil commands, I get:
$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MailDisk/
/Volumes/MailDisk:
No index.
$ sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/MailDisk/
/Volumes/MailDisk:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-107)
No index.
So I am at a loss to know how to force Spotlight to create an index for the
volume.
-Nate
On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Tom M. Blenko wrote:
>
> This has happened to me multiple times. You probably need to reindex the
> partition containing your mail for Spotlight. mdutil(1).
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Nathan Sims wrote:
>
>> Without warning, my 10.6.8 iMac now refuses to allow me to spotlight search
>> email (within Mail.app) by "Entire Message" -- it's dimmed out. I can only
>> choose "From", "To", or "Subject".
>>
>> What needs to be reset to get this capability back?
>>
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