We're using Xserve (Mac OS X Server 10.6.7) with ~6TB storage as our AFP fileserver. The spotlight searching is not working well, neither at the server console nor client side.I have tried rebuid the spotlight index with the following commands,sudo mdutil -i on /rm -rf /.Spotlight*sudo mdutil -E /The spotlight engine seems working. But we can't find things accuractly. It seems that we can find things in the past but not the ones recently added to the server. We have clients from 10.4.11 to 10.6.7, and there is no luck for all.Does spotlight has storage size limit?Thank you!

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Spotlight Not Working on Xserve with Large Storage

We're using Xserve (Mac OS X Server 10.6.7) with ~6TB storage as our AFP fileserver. The spotlight searching is not working well, neither at the server console nor client side.

I have tried rebuid the spotlight index with the following commands,

sudo mdutil -i on /
rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -E /

The spotlight engine seems working. But we can't find things accuractly. It seems that we can find things in the past but not the ones recently added to the server. We have clients from 10.4.11 to 10.6.7, and there is no luck for all.

Does spotlight has storage size limit?

Thank you!

Xserve, Mac OS X (10.6.4), MacBook Pro, iMac

Posted on May 19, 2011 9:43 PM

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Spotlight Not Working on Xserve with Large Storage

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