fmdolan
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Q: enable indexing in 10.6?
Trying to solve a problem in mail search, I tried to force spotlight to reindex by using terminal: someone said I could enable it by using the terminal command "sudo mdutil -E /". I did this, and got the response "indexing disabled." Can anyone tell me how to turn it back on?
iMac 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.6)
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A A P L
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Lots of ways to do it.
Fix: Manually reset spotlight indexing. Open the Terminal application and at the pormpt type the following command:
sudo mdutil -e -i on
With this text entered (and ensuring a space is after the last character) drag the mounted disk that will not index to the terminal window, and the command should complete with the file path of the disk, as such:
sudo mdutil -e -i on /Volumes/diskname/
Then press enter, supply the administrator password, and the index should be rebuilt.
Fix: Manually reset spotlight indexing. Open the Terminal application and at the pormpt type the following command:
sudo mdutil -e -i on
With this text entered (and ensuring a space is after the last character) drag the mounted disk that will not index to the terminal window, and the command should complete with the file path of the disk, as such:
sudo mdutil -e -i on /Volumes/diskname/
Then press enter, supply the administrator password, and the index should be rebuilt.
