Spotlight doesn't search EVERYTHING

[M. Malone]

Hello,

I was trying to find a certain email I sent a few months back, so I type in the keywords I remembered in Spotlight. It didn't find it, so after so much time of scrolling, I find it, I was surprised it didn't appear in my search results, so I try again, and Spotlight still can't find this email. Also many things in my Mac it won't find, even though after clicking around I find them, Spotlight seems to be out of sync with the contents in my Mac.

I remember in Tiger is use to find EVERYTHING, even little keywords inside documents. How can I fix it?

thanks

 

[M. Malone]

Hello,

I was trying to find a certain email I sent a few months back, so I type in the keywords I remembered in Spotlight. It didn't find it, so after so much time of scrolling, I find it, I was surprised it didn't appear in my search results, so I try again, and Spotlight still can't find this email. Also many things in my Mac it won't find, even though after clicking around I find them, Spotlight seems to be out of sync with the contents in my Mac.

I remember in Tiger is use to find EVERYTHING, even little keywords inside documents. How can I fix it?

thanks

Problem solved, I downloaded Maintenance 3.8 from Apple.com and it cleaned my mac including reindexing Spotlight. Now it's back to normal.

 

[telecomm]

For future reference, you can force Spotlight to re-index your hard drive by going to the Spotlight panel in System Preferences and, in the Privacy section, adding you hard drive as a device not to search. Then, go back in and remove your HD from Privacy. Spotlight will then reindex everything on the drive.

 

[M. Malone]

For future reference, you can force Spotlight to re-index your hard drive by going to the Spotlight panel in System Preferences and, in the Privacy section, adding you hard drive as a device not to search. Then, go back in and remove your HD from Privacy. Spotlight will then reindex everything on the drive.

good info, thanks!

 

[dhyde79]

just tried this on 10.5.4 and nothing.....I hit ctrl+space, spotlight pops up, type in anything at all, it doesn't even attempt to search......

any suggestions?