searching in an encrypted disk image

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searching in an encrypted disk image

Does anyone know how I can search PDFs inside an encrypted disk image?

The problem is not to search the encrypted disk image while it is "closed", but while it is open.
I can open it fine, but then when I search for something that must be contained in some PDFs inside the disk image (using finder), I can't find it ...

Best regards,
Gabriel.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 11, 2008 1:01 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Oct 11, 2008 1:05 PM in response to GabrielZ

That's because it isn't indexed by Spotlight. You cannot search any device that Spotlight hasn't or cannot index. You might try using the freeware Easy Find instead - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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Answer 2

V.K.

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Oct 11, 2008 1:19 PM in response to GabrielZ

disk images are not indexed by spotlight by default.

You can turn on spotlight indexing on an individual disk image as follows. mount it and enter the following in terminal

mdutil -i on

do not press enter yet. press space. drag the mounted disk to the terminal window. press enter in terminal. the disk image should be writable for this to work.

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Answer 3

GabrielZ Author

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Oct 11, 2008 2:35 PM in response to V.K.

Ah, that's cool!

And it seems to work even across multiple closings and openings of the disk image!

(I had found the workaround to copy the contents to the desktop, but your solutions is really cool.)

Best regards,
Gabriel.

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Answer 4

V.K.

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Oct 11, 2008 2:37 PM in response to GabrielZ

you are welcome!

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