[X4U] Find not always works

Jim Robertson jamesrob at sonic.net
Sun Nov 23 10:58:23 PST 2008


On 11/23/08 7:56 AM, "Paul Moortgat" <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:

> Jason Wiggins from Spotlaser told me to do this in Terminal: sudo mdutil -E /
> sudo means "super user do", mdutil is the metadata utility, -E means  erase
> and rebuild index and the / means your main drive (Macintosh HD)
> 

Great tip! I was just about to post here because another Mac listserv I read
didn't have good suggestions about why Spotlight stopped finding useful
things for me.

I'll wait until a few UNIX gurus chime in before I try this, however :-)

Jim Robertson
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