Re: Spotlight Indexing
Re: Spotlight Indexing
- Subject: Re: Spotlight Indexing
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:27 -0700
On 8/24/09, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
=>
> I've been experimenting this morning. I created a 4.7 GB sparsebundle
> and filled it with more than 830 MB of email files. I tried to do a
> Spotlight search on this disk, but, as expected, found nothing because
> the disk is not indexed.
>
> In terminal, the command
>
> mdutil -i volumepath
>
> enables indexing and I can now search and find within the disk.
>
> I was able to search immediately after enabling indexing. There was no
> wait while indexing was completed. I am suspicious. Comments about
> Spotlight I have read in the past indicate that indexing may take sometime.
>
> Perhaps a Spotlight expert can explain more about what is happening here.
Something's amiss. The Terminal command should be:
mdutil -i on volumepath (and may even require the sudo prefix)
Are you sure it's finding stuff in that bundle and not something on your boot
volume?
More about Spotlight, assuming Leopard, at
<http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html >.
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