[X4U] Any way to force a spotlight index update?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 9, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> Does anybody know of a way to force an update of Spotlight indexing?
>
> I have several external firewire drives, and notice that neither  
> spotlight or command-F searches will show up files that I KNOW are  
> present on one of the drives.
>
> I've seen posts on macnn and macfixit regarding this, but nobody  
> has any suggestions about how to force a spotlight update.
>
> any suggestions?

In Terminal:

mdimport -f [path]

Where path is either a volume or a specific folder.


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