You didn't do something silly like enter MailDisk in the Privacy area in the Spotlight preference, did you?
On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: > 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? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
