search function

i have a new mbp running osx10.4.9. earlier i used to have an ibookg4 running os10.4.

i had transferred a set of papers (scientific papers) from a folder from the older machine to the newer one. earlier in the finder winfdow if i searched for the name of the paper, the search result provided the right paper. however, now on the new machine, i cant seem to do that. either in spotlight or in the finder search function.

any ideas?

i had transferred the .pdf files onto an external hard disk and then transferred them onto the new machine.

 

ok ... will try today and les see what happens... thanks a bunch for the suggestion.

 

didnt work so far unfortunately... still trying... !!!

boy, sure it does take a while!

 

hey mad,

could you pease post a step by step how to on indexing spotlight or anything that would help find the files even in finders search function?

thanks a billion.

 

thank you mad!!!

it works friend!!!... for some reason putting the entire hard drive did not do the trick. putting and removing only the folder that contained my papers did it!!!!

thanks a bunch!!!