Oops, I didn't mean to send this one. Please ignore. >Thank you so much. Coincidentally, I have been studying a basic Unix >tutorial this afternoon so that was less confusing than it might >have been an hour ago! > >But I notice in the listing of /.Spotlight-V100/ that its size is >zero. and when I try to view it (I used "cat" - was that wrong?) it >says "No such file or directory". > >I appear not to have journaled my hard drive. Would that make this >process not work? My guess is that the answer is "yes". So can you >only change this .plist if your disk is set up to be journaled? > >Or maybe I am misinterpreting the "---->" in your instructions. ----------------------