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Re: Spotlight Indexing


  • Subject: Re: Spotlight Indexing
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:46:57 -0700

Just to backstep a bit, I'm curious, now that Spotlight has had a chance to fully index your files, are the search results more complete?

If you're saving email files, and they are mostly plain text, Spotlight might do just fine without indexing and indexing would be pretty quick. However if your files have lots of attachments that include various file formats (Word, Excel, Quark, PDFs) then Spotlight will be pretty helpless until everything is indexed.

ES


On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Luther Fuller 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 some time.

Perhaps a Spotlight expert can explain more about what is happening here.

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