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



> Hi all,
> 
> Updated to 10.5.3 this morning, hoping to find my biggest issue
> solved, which is searching AFP shares from clients.  Finder searches
> from Tiger and Leopard clients return different but unreliable
> results, mostly not returning any results at all.  Finder searches
> from Tiger clients actually return better, but still incomplete,
> results than the Leopard clients do.  I'm starting to wonder whether
> Spotlight indexes deeper than one or two levels in the filesystem.
> Most of the files I need to search are buried three, four, or more
> folders down from the volume root.  Can anyone tell me if I'm totally
> wrong, or is this behavior anyone's seen before?

I run a couple of Leopard clients on a Panther server and they are virtually
unusable in regards to any kind of searches. The Tiger and Panther clients
are fine but the 10.5 machines give all sorts of wonky results.

I think its a client issue but I've no evidence to support it...


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