[X4U] Tiger - Trouble Using Find Command

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Wed May 31 10:18:58 PDT 2006


On 05/31/06, revDAVE <coolcat at hosting4days.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/2006 6:21 PM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>> BTW:  spotlight does not have anything in the privacy area to block this...
>>
>> No. But it also has excluded many areas for searching. See the hint at
>>
>><http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050222125145&query=rules.plist>.
>
>
> Very interesting.
>
> In my case, this is a separate simple data drive - no system files ...

To ensure that Spotlight adds that drive to its index, open the Terminal app,
and type in this:

mdutil -i on <volume>

where <volume> has the form: /dev/diskXsY, obtained from the command: df -h

>
> Q: Where can I read more on the subject?

<http://www.macworld.com/search/index.php> and confine your search for
spotlight to Features and May 05-May06.

<http://www.macosxhints.com/>, search for spotlight.

<http://www.macintouch.com/>, search for spotlight.

etc., etc., etc.


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