force spotlight index?

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ipodandimacipodandimac
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I moved my pics and music from my G5 (still on panther for a few more days) to this powerbook with tiger. None of my music or photos will index. i tried adding spotlight comments to files buried deep in each library to get spotlight to look there, and it did, but only to the couple of files i changed. and tips? i really don't wanna go through and do a batch change of every single photo and music file.

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    rara Posts: 623member
    Go in the terminal and type the following:

    Code:


    sudo mdutil -i off / <return>

    sudo mdutil -i on / <return>



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    johnqjohnq Posts: 2,763member
    Allegedly:



    1: Add your drives to the list in the "Private" tab in System Preferences: Spotlight

    2: Quit System Preferences (which deletes the old index, since your drives are now added to Private)

    3: THEN remove the drives from the list you just added them to (in the Private tab in System Preferences: Spotlight). It will force Spotlight to redo the indexes, but I'm not positive how completely it does this yet.



    YMMV
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