Q: Spotlight gives "Privacy List Error"
I cannot use Spotlight on Leopard at all. adding volumes to Privacy gives the following error:
"Privacy List Error
The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error"
This build of Leopard came on my MacPro 8-core released in Jan 08. I have searched here and found much discussion about forcing re-indexing using the terminal and adding and removing items from Privacy. I have tried them ALL. Terminal returns "No index" when I try "sudo mdutil -E /" or on any other mounted volumes.
I have downloaded Cocktail and tried to erase indices from there. Every volume returns the following Cocktail error:
"Unable to detect Spotlight indexing status [volume name] is not accessible, read-only or mdutil is not working properly."
Any ideas?
"Privacy List Error
The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error"
This build of Leopard came on my MacPro 8-core released in Jan 08. I have searched here and found much discussion about forcing re-indexing using the terminal and adding and removing items from Privacy. I have tried them ALL. Terminal returns "No index" when I try "sudo mdutil -E /" or on any other mounted volumes.
I have downloaded Cocktail and tried to erase indices from there. Every volume returns the following Cocktail error:
"Unable to detect Spotlight indexing status [volume name] is not accessible, read-only or mdutil is not working properly."
Any ideas?
MacPro 2 x 2.8 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 4 GB RAM, Pro Tools|HD, Logic Pro, Nuendo
Posted on Mar 28, 2008 3:14 PM