Spotlight not working under 10.6.6… reindexed several times.

Delete the entire Spotlight directory and reindex, running these commands in the Terminal app:

*sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100*

*sudo mdutil -i on /*

*sudo mduitl -E /*

/.Spotlight-V100

The first command deletes it.

Thanks for the feedback. Good computing.

I have the same problem. After the 10.6.6 update spotlight does not find anything anymore. I have tried the suggested solutions but nothing helps.

I have tried to exclude the HD from the search in the Preferences. I did not work.

I have tried the Terminal commandes:

sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100

but then i get in return:"No such file or directory"

sudo mdutil -i on /

returns:"Error: unable to perform operation. (-402)
Indexing and searching disabled because of ".metadata neverindex" file at root of volume."

anybody further ideas?

I had this issue. My Spotlight Icon was not showing up in the menu bar, however, searching within folders seemed to be working just fine. I did everything under the sun.

+Repaired Disk Permissions+
+Used Onyx & MainMenu+
+Terminal Commands+
+Replaced files+

Most of these older solutions did not work, however, because 10.6 handles Spotlight so differently.

*Here is what worked for me:*

I noticed that using Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app) to restart the SystemUIServer would refresh the menu bar, but not make Spotlight reappear in the menu.

I then opened up Console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) and saw that SystemUIServer gave the following error:

+Error loading /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search: dlopen(/System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search, 265): Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Calculate.framework/Versions/A/Calculate+
+Referenced from: /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search+
+Reason: image not found+

From that I deduced that there must be a problem with the Calculate.framework, because it wasn't loaded and SystemUIServer was trying to access it. Needless to say, after checking out the Calculate.framework (/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Calculate.framework/) I found that it was completely empty. That didn't seem right.

I got onto another macbook running OS X 10.6.6 and copied the Calculate.framework. After replacing the empty one with the healthy one, I restarted SystemUIServer from Activity Monitor and WHALA, it works again.

Hope this was helpful.

Thanks for this help. I'd replaced my laptop's hard drive and the spotlight index got scr_ed. Your advice solved the issue.