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
February 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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.