Rebuild for spotlight?

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Perhaps, but one of the many things I tried over the last 24 hours to
get this to work was a complete permissions repair... I don't know. I'm
just happy it's working. Thanks to all for their help.

Thanks for letting me know about the permissions. I still can't figure
out what's wrong for some people with the default location. (and I don;t
like playing around with the /System/Library fodler :-< ).

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Where were they originally. My files are in the /Library/Spotlight folder,
not the System/Library/Spotlight folder.

I don't recall ever moving them, but will try now.

The mdimporter is installed in /Library/Spotlight by the updater.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

But not in the System/Library/Spotlight folder, right? Or if they exist in
one folder, they are not copied to the other.

Precisely: it's only installed in one copy in /Library/Spotlight. And
"in a perfect world" it shouldn't be. Andy suggested that as a
workaround to get Spotlight to finally recognise and use it.

There is obviously something wrong with Spotlight and the default
location for some users. It doesn't appear to be Permissions since some
people did repair them and still have problems with Spotlight indexing.

Spotlight should find the importer from /Library/Spotlight,
~/Library/Spotlight, and /System/Library/Spotlight

No one *should* ever have to play around in /System, but there is
something fishy with /Library/Spotlight apparently :-<

At least it works now, but it would be nice to figure out what happened.

Oh, yes, after moving them to the System/Library folder, I did check
permissions. Not sure if that is the answer, however, since Macaroni is
always repairing permissions for me on a daily basis.

OK, so that rules out Permissions for you as well.
Thanks for letting me know,

Corentin

 

[wdavis0911]

This might help somebody;

I couldn't get Spotlight to index my mail and I had all the pieces in
the right spots. The only thing I didn't have on was "Include Entourage
item in search results" checked in the Entourage Preferences: General
Preferences> Spotlight. Once I did that everything now works and my
mail was indexed.