Finder is not indexing external hard drive for searching function

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  1. motaburn, Sep 28, 2011

    motaburn macrumors newbie

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    hi everyone!


    since i installed Lion, the search function of the finder doesnt how the files in my external hard drive... do you know how to fix this ?

    otherwise i think i will go back to leopard, lion is too annoying... maybe because i have a macbook pro 2006?

    thanks!
     
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  2. Quad5Ny, Sep 28, 2011

    Quad5Ny macrumors 6502a

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    Try adding and the removing the drive to Spotlights privacy list (System Preferences>Spotlight>Privacy)

    Also I don't believe spotlight works on NTFS formatted volumes unless you have a Write-Enabled NTFS driver installed.
     
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