10.5.6 Update-DOES NOT SEARCH ANYMORE

I'm having the same issue. I wonder if Apple test anything that they do in regards to updates. Seems like something simple that they should check. Was literaly the 2nd thing I did after restarting from update. I guess Fixing one thing by smashing with a hammer might destroy something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Same issue here
I can't search my colleague's G4 running 10.4.11
Searching windows shares seems to fine, however

Add me in as well.

Can't search network drives mounted on the client desktop. I CAN search them on the server itself, but not on my client.

Does anyone know how to get Spotlight to re-index everything?

Same problem here. Can't search on my servers, please help.

In the same boat here. This is an unforgivable bug.

Same Here. This is killing our entire workflow. I've never been this disappointed about Apple. We're losing money by the second do to really unreliable engineering. Nice job guys, try again without making us update our servers too.

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Odd? After updating spotlight re-indexed my external drives etc. For me they are still working fine so I guess I'm lucky.

"Does anyone know how to get Spotlight to re-index everything?"

Yes, in a round about way. If you go to System Preferences and click on Spotlight. In the Spotlight preference pane there is a tab marked Privacy. If you click on privacy you get the option to add files or drives that are not to be indexed. If you drag the troublesome drive into the box to prevent indexing and leave it to do whatever it needs to do. On removing the drive form this list the drive will be re-indexed and your Spotlight problems should be solved.

Sorry if this sounds like a long winded method. I am sure that there must be a better way using terminal.

Hope this helps,

Chuck

external drives aren't the problem
network drives (shares) are.
for me it only seems to be my colleague's Mac using 10.4.11 connected as an afp share.
Perhaps an Appleshare bug?
Windows share connected by samba seem to search fine

Ugh! The exact same problem here. I search the servers constantly at my office and now the whole office is pretty much dead in the water. Any work arounds or solutions would earn you a healthy reward.

The only way that I've found to search on a mounted server (using OS 10.5.6) in the finder's spotlight is to search within a folder on that server. For whatever reason, you can't search on the root directory of the server. So in theory, you should be able to search on that server if you put everything in a folder. Kind of bass ackwards. Or you could use Adobe Bridge to search.

yup. both of those methods work for me.
at least we have a useable work around until a fix is released

For everyone reporting on this problem, Apple doesn't read these forums, so if you want to get their attention, send both Feedback and bug reports/enhancement requests via Apple's Bug Reporter system. To do the latter, join the Apple Developer Connection ( ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure over submitting feedback is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

I can't help with the issue since I don't connect to servers.

We are experiencing the same problem with our Leopard installation, our work around is to mount the drive using smb (yes, windows). Believe it or not, our user is able to use finder successfully be it slower. It is hard to believe that they broke there own Apple File Protocol in finder.

I tried getting Spotlight to re-index the drive using sudo mdutil -E -i on (drag volume here) in Terminal, but it didn't work either.

I haven't tried mounting the volumes using samba, but searching folders on the mounted volume seems to work, just no searching at the root level of the share.

I'm really hoping Apple fixes this quickly.

Same here. I just posted and then this topic came to the top. I have clients that used the search feature A LOT, and this is really a problem. I have tried EasyFind, but it seems to stop working after a while as well.

APPLE - HELP!!!