Fwd: [X4U] "Searching" question under 10.4 Lesson Learned

[Lee Licata]

Dear List,

Here is a lesson learned.

I have no idea if the modified .rules.plist file created below is  
related to the effect I saw a few days later but voodoo is easier to  
explain...

After do the below, I noticed that spotlight did not find anything  
that was in my address book..

After numerous spotlight rebuilds, still no joy.

So, reverted back to the original .rules.plist and still no luck.

Trashed spotlight and address.plist files. Rebuilt spotlight

Still no luck.

Trashed all of the data files in the folder that the .rules.plist  
resides in.

Still nada!

Then, backed up my address file and trashed the original.

Reverted to the saved backup file.

forced spotlight to rebuild.

Voila! Everything is as it was....

An explanation would be nice but not pushing my luck!

Lee


Begin forwarded message:

From: Lee Licata <lazilicata at gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2006 09:21:48 GMT+03:00

To John and the list,

Thank you John for your hint.

I took your advice but instead of using terminal, I logged in as the  
root, made all files visible, found the plist in question, opened it  
in property editor, noted that the "included" strings line was empty,  
and after making a duplicate of the original, added to the included  
strings the folders you listed below.

Quit root, restarted in admin mode, and waited HOURS for spotlight to  
re-index.

Then, tested. Found all the files I tested. Thank you for your tip!!!

Lee


Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:02:26 -0700
From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [X4U] "Searching" question under 10.4

On 05/10/06, Lee Licata <lazilicata at gmail.com> wrote:


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