I'm running Lion on a Macbook Pro. I have an external hard drive attached. Spotlight seems to have indexed some of it. When I add new files, I have no idea when -- if ever -- Spotlight is going to get around to seeing and indexing them. Is there any way to force it to immediately index those new files without reindexing the entire hard drive?
Or if not, is there an alternative to Spotlight that maintains its own index? I know there is software like Easyfind that will manually search through the entire hard drive for a file, but on a big hard drive it takes forever. I want some utility that will continuously and instantly index any new files added to my hard drive -- at least the file names, I don't need the file contents indexed.
Any help? Thanks.
Or if not, is there an alternative to Spotlight that maintains its own index? I know there is software like Easyfind that will manually search through the entire hard drive for a file, but on a big hard drive it takes forever. I want some utility that will continuously and instantly index any new files added to my hard drive -- at least the file names, I don't need the file contents indexed.
Any help? Thanks.