[X4U] Find not always works

[Daly Jessup]

Jim Robertson wrote:

>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 :-)

Well, I'm not a guru, but I just went ahead and ran the command, and 
it was painless, and went ahead as expected. On the other hand, I 
hadn't been having problems with Spotlight. Still, I think the little 
command isn't going to "bite" you if you want to try it.

Daly
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