Bother No More - A Weblog By Mattias Gunneras

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!