Spotlight no longer searches external drives

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Spotlight no longer searches external drives

Spotlight has stopped searching my external firewire drives.

I had to do a couple of hard boots when Leopard hung up and after those, spotlight started re-indexing all drives and I let it do it. After that I can no longer find anything on external drives with Spotlight.

Any suggestions to fix?

MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 11, 2008 4:49 AM

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Answer 1

May 15, 2008 10:09 PM in response to Rami Laine

Interesting, I'm having the same problem. I deleted my finder and spotlight preferance files but not sure what to do from here. I have some hard boots myself.

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Answer 2

May 16, 2008 6:20 PM in response to Rami Laine

Found the fix. Go into spotlight under system preferences and choose the privacy tab. Add the external HD you are wanting to reindex. Then remove it. This forces spotlight to reindex the drive and fix your problem. Worked for me.

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