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To: JP Sullivan who wrote (69820)10/8/2007 5:01:01 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 213183
 
Winston -

You can get Spotlight to reindex your drive, which should fix that problem. But you kind of have to fool the Spotlight program to do it.

Go into System Preferences and click on Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Either drag your hard drive icon into the window, or click the + sign and add it in that way. This indicates to OS X that you don't want the system to index your drive. Leave it there for a few minutes.

Now, go back into the Privacy tab and remove the hard drive from the window. I think you can either just drag it out of there or select it and use the - button.

Spotlight will then start throw out the old index and start reindexing the whole drive. It may take a while, but you'll end up with an up to date index.

Is this unreasonably clunky and non-intuitive. I would say yes. It also happens to be what Apple recommends doing. I hope they add a "reindex" button to the Spotlight prefs at some point.

- Allen
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