Sorry Peter,
Notice that you are not using OSX 10.4 Tiger.
So Spotlight does not apply to you.
To Index in Panther:
Select the disk or folder you want to index in the Finder.
Choose File > Get Info.
Click Content Index, then click Index Now.
Cheers,
Ronni
Hi Peter,
On 19/10/2005, at 12:08 PM, Peter Bull wrote:
I am using OS 10.3.5 on an eMac. First question: has the eMac been
discontinued - silly move if it has?
eMacs no longer available for direct consumer purchase Apple has
removed the eMac from the general consumer online store, instead
offering the machine only in lots of 8 through the education channel.
Second: OS9 had an indexing feature which after an initial
indexing could then be updated which is obviously much quicker
than doing the whole index again. As a relative newbie to OSX it
seems that the update feature is not available in OS X and the
whole index needs to be recreated rather than updated. Is this
correct or am I missing something?
As soon as Tiger starts up the first time, Spotlight indexes all
the files on all mounted volumes.
Thereafter, however, Spotlight will quickly and unobtrusively index
new or modified files in the background.
If you find ,as Edward did yesterday that some files were not being
found by Spotlight, you may need to re-index.
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
Click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag a folder or even an entire volume (your hard drive) to the list.
Remove the item or volume you just added.
Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially
dragged to the list.
Depending on how many and what kind of files you have it can take
upwards of an hour or two to re-index.
Cheers,
Ronni
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