Spotlight won't re-index

[ocbo41]

I tried to re index my spotlight index, and after doing so, it will not index any files unless I manually re open them. I work in a print shop and need to search by the job number of each job....now I cant

I did the trick where you add the volume under the privacy and remove, also some of the terminal commands found under osx hints....

Any Ideas?

 

[misterredman]

May I ask you why you needed to reindex at all?

 

[ocbo41]

After moving 100gb of archives to a server HD, I thought that it would make it faster by making a new smaller index....

 

[misterredman]

I see. I don't think it was needed, spotlight should handle that automatically. Anyway try this:

sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -E /

 

[ocbo41]

Thanks that seemed to work great!

its not taking 45+ min to index instead of 2 sec