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

[Michael Elliott]

Excellent!  Took a while, but worked like a charm.

Michael

On May 9, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Kirk

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