[X4U] Getting spotlight to index where it usually doesn't

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Sun Dec 4 02:36:04 PST 2005


On Dec 4, 2005, at 4:14 am, Kansas Territory wrote:
>
> I tried creating an alias of the "Logs" directory and putting it into 
> my ~/Documents directory.   But that didn't seem to help.  Now It's 
> been since earlier today that I created this Alias. Is it possible 
> Spotlight hasn't checked on it yet ?  or should it be immediate if 
> it's going to work at all ?

I think you'll find that Spotlight indexes stuff nearly immediately - 
try searching foe "ghgfhghg", leaving the Spotlight window open & then 
saving a textfile containing the word "ghgfhghg". My experience is that 
it shows up straight away.

Stroller.



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