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.