Finder doesn't find new excel files

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Finder doesn't find new excel files

I run an online business and we store customer information in Excel files (Office for Mac 2011). When I search for names in finder, it only shows the files from 2011 or older. New Excel sheets (one is created each day for the days orders) are not found. I have one open right now with the name Trevor Alin. When I search Trevor Alin in Finder, it returns only an old sheet from 2011, it won't show todays file. The same is true for files from months ago.

Is there anything I can do to ensure finder searches new excel files?

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 29, 2013 3:32 PM

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Answer 1

Drew Reece

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Nov 29, 2013 6:05 PM in response to andymarksmith

See this note…

Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409

Once the index is rebuilt it should show new entries. If that doens't work backup & ensure your disk is verified and repaired in recovery mode via Disk Utility.

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Answer 2

Dec 5, 2013 5:47 AM in response to Drew Reece

Unfortunately this doesn't solve the issue for me. I remember a long time ago doing something in the Console window, I have looked everywhere for that code.

I'm not trying to search with spotlight, though I still followed the steps, I use launchbar instead of spotlight and what I'm refering to above is a search using command+f in Finder. Not sure if this is Spotlight so please excuse my ignorance if it is. However, that re-indexing did not work for me.

Any suggestions?

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Answer 3

Drew Reece

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Dec 5, 2013 6:08 AM in response to andymarksmith

Console is just a log reader…

/Applications/Utilities/Console

You are probably thinking of Terminal

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal

I think you may need to post to Launchbar's support unless someone else can help, I don't use it & don't know if it only uses Spotlight's index for finding items.

http://www.obdev.at/support/index.html?product=LB

Does Spotlight find the items now? If it does better than Launchbar you will need to look at how to refresh LB's index.

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