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LincolnsiPod

macrumors 6502a
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Nov 20, 2009
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Anyone having constant issues with Spotlight?

I started noticing issues when my flagged Folder no longer showed my Flagged emails, and it seems to be related to my Spotlight Index. Using Spotlight to search emails or most local content refuses to work, but I observed that if I rebuild the Spotlight index, I can see my flagged emails again, but only for a short time. Native email search doesn't work either.

I've tried using the Privacy option to disable and then re-index, used Onyx to rebuild the index, and used Terminal to rebuild the index that way. Rebuilding the index works temporarily, and then things break all over again. For some reason, Spotlight just loses the ability to search local content no matter how many times I rebuild the index.

Anyone else have issues like this and found a solution? Driving me nuts.
 
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