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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1831585" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>That instructions are unintuitive I grant you. But by adding an exclusion and then removing that exclusion, you are basically including it and thus forcing Spotlight to rescan that folder and get you a new index. </p><p></p><p>Do the following, open up Activity Monitor and go to the CPU tab and sort by CPU usage. Then in the Spotlight privacy tab, add whatever folder (or the entire HD) to the list. Say OK on the scary warning message, once the folder is added to the list, click on it and hit the (-) to remove it. Switch over to Activity Monitor and you should suddenly see <strong>mds_stores</strong>, <strong>mds</strong>, and whole bunch of <strong>mdworker_shared</strong> processes all come in and go. That's your indication that your entire drive or the folder you added is being reindexed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1831585, member: 110816"] That instructions are unintuitive I grant you. But by adding an exclusion and then removing that exclusion, you are basically including it and thus forcing Spotlight to rescan that folder and get you a new index. Do the following, open up Activity Monitor and go to the CPU tab and sort by CPU usage. Then in the Spotlight privacy tab, add whatever folder (or the entire HD) to the list. Say OK on the scary warning message, once the folder is added to the list, click on it and hit the (-) to remove it. Switch over to Activity Monitor and you should suddenly see [B]mds_stores[/B], [B]mds[/B], and whole bunch of [B]mdworker_shared[/B] processes all come in and go. That's your indication that your entire drive or the folder you added is being reindexed. [/QUOTE]
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