Comments on: Spotlight trouble? Re-index your entire hard drive for search

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:53:02 +0000

Thanks! That worked great after all the others didn’t!
I did add the drive to privacy, then, after a reboot it restarted properly.

By: Sylvan

Sylvan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:09:53 +0000

I’m running OS X v10.6.6 on my Macbook Pro and this fix seems to work beautifully. A very simple yet effective trick. Thank you!

By: Carolina Ferrero

Carolina Ferrero — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:46:35 +0000

It works as long as you are searching on your hard drive, however if you are searching on a server it does not work, for some reason I was unable to add the server drive.
I did the terminal thing, same problem

By: Kim Seeling Smith

Kim Seeling Smith — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:47:53 +0000

This rocks! I’ve been having progressively worse problems with this for months and it finally became so bad I had to do something! Followed your advice and 10 minutes later it’s fixed! Thank you!!!!!!

By: Rick Cogley

Rick Cogley — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:39:41 +0000

I had a lot of trouble with this on 10.6.3, and here is what I did to resolve it:

http://rick.cogley.info/blog/index.php?id=6910133332798179400

I hope Apple stabilize this part, as it is so important to a Mac.

Regards,
Rick

By: Arend

Arend — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:08:17 +0000

Worked perfectly for me with snow leopard, thanks!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:38:04 +0000

Actually, I was mistaken, using 10.5.8, not Snow Leopard.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:56:57 +0000

Using Snow Leopard and Spotlight wasn’t working, at all, so I have tried both the adding and removing of hard drive from privacy as well as the terminal command. Neither worked. The terminal command came back with “no index.” I installed Google Desktop and when I go to the preferences for that, it tells me that the hard drive is on privacy and it will not index it. However, there is nothing at all listed in my privacy list under system preferences. It’s like a hidden privacy! Any ideas on how to fix this? I’ve added and removed the hard drive a number of times, waiting a while in between, restarting, and nothing fixing it. Thanks!

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:29:07 +0000

Rob,
Snow Leopard should have automatically re-indexed your entire Mac right after it was installed. If you’re still having problems, though, try this command out in Terminal:

sudo mdutil -E /

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:48:04 +0000

This doesn’t appear to work in 10.6 and I can’t find any solutions on google – any suggestions?