How do I rest or re-index spotlight
My spotlight is not finding folders that I think it should find. For example it will not find "My Templates" folder.
Is there a way to re-index spotlight?
I am also running Alfred 2.
I recenlty installed OSX 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion)
I have run disk repair and verify disk and spotlight will not find "My Templates" folder.
iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), hp photosmart , HP laser jet 2055dn
Add your hard drive to the Privacy pane in the Spotlight preferences, wait a bit, then remove it. That will normally cause Spotlight to reindex the drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409
If it still fails, you may need to delete the existing Spotlight index cache. Post back and someone can provide instructions.
Regards.
I tried putting hard drive in private and deleting from private and the situation did not change.
I think it might have to do with the way my super duper back-up is configured.
I was having some other issues so I just re-installed 10.8.3.
Spotlight is re-indexing...I will report back.
I have read some other support articles which suggest that super duper might be causing a problem.
Also, there is a re-indexing command in Alfred2 which I tried before, but not since re-installing.
I am open to suggestions.
But I will report back
Thank you for your time.
Spotlight is tricky about showing files in hidden folders. Hold down the option key and select
Go > Library
from the menu bar. Try the search again, being sure to search "Library."
So Library is hidden in Mountain Lion, but not hidden in Snow Leopard?
Correct; the user's Library folder is also hidden by default in 10.7 Lion.
Regards.
How do I rest or re-index spotlight
