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Re: Spotlight indexing, mdutil, and nested folder searching...



On 5/30/08 6:55 AM, "Andre Andrepont" <email@hidden>
wrote:

> 
> On May 30, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Simon Slavin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 29 May 2008, at 10:50pm, Andre Andrepont wrote:
>> 
>>> Just as an update, reindexing the drive doesn't seem to help.  Is
>>> there any way I can find the Spotlight index for that volume and
>>> review it with a text editor?
>> 
>> 
>> Look in the folder called .Spotlight-V100 in the root directory of
>> the volume.
>> 
>> Another thing to try would be to sit at the server, log in, and see
>> if you can use Spotlight to find that same file.
> 
> Thanks Simon, wish I'd thought of that sooner myself.  As is stands
> right now, neither Finder searches nor Spotlight bar searches turn up
> the test file.  Will try again to reindex the disk and report my
> results.

Have you verified the directory structures on the disk? DiskWarrior might be
called for.

Matt


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