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Fixing Spotlight’s issues

By Wayne Dixon Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 12:34 PM

After reading Josh’s post about his spotlight woes, I IMed him and  offered a solution.  If spotlight is being a complete pain in the ass, go to Terminal (or Finder if you have hidden files shown).  Find the .Spotlight-V100 file in the root “/” volume of your Mac.  Type in “rm .Spotlight-v100″.  This will remove the spotlight index file from that drive.  Reboot your mac.  It should start re-indexing again upon login.  I would recommend doing this for every volume that you’re having problems with, before you reboot.  It will take spotlight a bit to go and re-index everything.  So be patient.

Wayne

  • Joshua Schnell

    Good call. Also just to clarify the .spotlight files are in the root of the volume you’re looking to fix. So in my case.

    cd /Volumes/MainHD
    rm -r .Spotlightfile

    Every volume will have a .spotlight file.

  • Lance

    The character encoding for your site has some problem. It looks wrong in the following browsers (all at default settings):
    * Firefox 3.6.8 Mac
    * Safari 4 Mac
    * Internet Explorer 8.0 Windows 7

    Here is what appears:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/36589940@N04/4943128011/

    • http://www.macgasm.net Joshua Schnell

      thanks lance, we’re looking into it. It seems just to be on older posts.