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lesterm
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Hi all,
I have only switched over to Mac from PC in the last few days, so I am really new to the OS. With that being said, I am having some spotlight/searching problems that I have not found an answer to while doing a forum search.
I attached an external HD with files from my windows machine (the external HD is formatted with HFS+ and I transferred the files using MacDrive), and I am having some trouble searching the drive. First off, it seems that spotlight has indexed certain files, but not only a few. I tried doing an mdimport but I think that screwed up my index for some reason, as spotlight ceased to function correct, so I used mdutil to rebuild the spotlight index. That seemed to fix my spotlight issue, but now I am back to where I started. Is there any way to get spotlight to index the drive?
Another problem I encountered is how to do a manual search. Is there any way to do a manual search using finder? When I am in finder I did tried using the search function, but it doesn't seem to work at all. I input my search string and it completes in under a second with 0 results found. Is there something I am missing?
Any advice on spotlight/finder searches would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I have only switched over to Mac from PC in the last few days, so I am really new to the OS. With that being said, I am having some spotlight/searching problems that I have not found an answer to while doing a forum search.
I attached an external HD with files from my windows machine (the external HD is formatted with HFS+ and I transferred the files using MacDrive), and I am having some trouble searching the drive. First off, it seems that spotlight has indexed certain files, but not only a few. I tried doing an mdimport but I think that screwed up my index for some reason, as spotlight ceased to function correct, so I used mdutil to rebuild the spotlight index. That seemed to fix my spotlight issue, but now I am back to where I started. Is there any way to get spotlight to index the drive?
Another problem I encountered is how to do a manual search. Is there any way to do a manual search using finder? When I am in finder I did tried using the search function, but it doesn't seem to work at all. I input my search string and it completes in under a second with 0 results found. Is there something I am missing?
Any advice on spotlight/finder searches would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!