September 27, 2006

Using spotlight

September 27th 2006 Posted to Geekery, mac

Spotlight is the great tool which every Tiger user loves. Except when it doesn’t work. Or it doesn’t find things it should. * sigh * So I’ve had to re-index my drive. Luckily, this is quite simple. Open Terminal and type:

sudo mdutil -E /

sudo mdutil -i on /

And Spotlight will reindex your drive (around 5 hours for me… * sigh *).

Spotlight-Reindex

But in the meantime, I’m still using Locator which is a cocoa frontend to the unix “locate” command. You’ll still need to build a “locate” database from scratch but it takes muuuuch quicker than 5 hours. Try 7 minutes!

Locator

MacWorld has some great tips for how to get even more out of Spotlight, like adding non-default folders to the Spotlight index.

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