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Mar042011

Rebuilding Spotlight Index

DateFriday, March 4, 2011 at 11:22PM

I ran into an interesting issue where for the first time in a while, Spotlight wasn't finding what I knew existed within my emails.  Each time I have to do expense reports (which I just LOVE doing!), I rely on Spotlight search to find my specific airfare, rental car, and hotel receipts that are sent to me via pdf within email messages.

After some googling, I found a method that did the trick:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1253

After the reindexing was complete, everything worked perfect.  Thanks Hoffman Labs!

Onyx is a great free app that helps in several ways (including rebuilding indexes):

http://www.titanium.free.fr/index.php

 

AuthorMatt Lesak | CommentPost a Comment |

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