Are those HDs listed in System Preferences->Spotlight->Privacy tab? If so, select them and hit the minus sign. To ascertain the indexing status, launch the Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities/, type in this command, hit the return key, enter your admin password when
Password: pops up, and hit the return key:
sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/*
This will display either *Indexing enabled.* or *Indexing and searching disabled.* for each mounted volume.
Are those HDs listed in System Preferences->Spotlight->Privacy tab? If so, select them and hit the minus sign. To ascertain the indexing status, launch the Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities/, type in this command, hit the return key, enter your admin password when
Password: pops up, and hit the return key:
sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/*
This will display either *Indexing enabled.* or *Indexing and searching disabled.* for each mounted volume.
Did you ever get a solution to this problem? We tried the Terminal method and Spotlight did not index as well for us.
Our setup is 3 Macs using a OS X Server' drive for file sharing. OS X Server is 10.3.9 but the Macs were Tiger (10.4) until last week. Since we got a new iMac for one station, we decided to upgrade the other 2 stations to Leopard; we did not foot the Server upgrade to 10.5 for the file server station.
Now none of our stations return Spotlight search results when accessing the file server drive. As I stated, this is now going for over a week, so I know Spotlight has had the time to index, even after attempting the Terminal change.
I have tried everything suggested here as well as the forums at apple.com.
I am getting errors in Terminal that my index does not exist. I have even tried going to the .spotlight-v100 folder and deleting the index files there. Spotlight would start indexing and afterwards still nothing.
I also tried using Cocktail and it reported a problem with the permission on mdutil so I chmod the permissions but... bupkis!
I am at the end of my rope here.