Leopard's Spotlight Problem
Indexing
Mon, 03 Dec ‘07
Since the past month I've been using the new, and for many people troublesome Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard. Besides having some annoyances with Spaces, I main consern has been Spotlight. It simply does not work. It didn't seem to index anything on my machine. I did check the privacy settings and nothing seemed wrong. Today I stumbled on a little commandline program called mdutil which is a utility to manage Spotlight indexes. So if you've got the same problem, you might want to try what I did. Open a Terminal window and type:
sudo mdutil -v -i on /
Immidiatly I heard the lovely sound of my harddrive chewing on as it got indexed. Sweet!
Comments (5)
Hmm... I tried this and I get:
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-107)
No index.
Any suggestions?
- Shep, Sat, 29 Dec ‘07
ur great. cheers, i worked like a charm for me!
- dykstra, Wed, 16 Jan ‘08
Thanks dykstra.
Shep, I'm sorry, I don't know what that means. you might want to have a look in this Apple discussion board: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6011731
- Mattias , Thu, 17 Jan ‘08
Try Archive and Install. This fixed my problem.
- jack koh, Tue, 04 Mar ‘08
Thanks! I finally got it to work by doing this:
bash-3.2$ su -
Password:
LeopardServer13:~ root# mdutil -i on /
/:
Indexing enabled.
LeopardServer13:~ root#
- Karen, Wed, 18 Jun ‘08