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Get Spotlight to index new files
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Iceland
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Spotlight works great but I shouldn´t have to run a Terminal command to get it to index new files...
It´s not like I haven´t waited for Spotlight to index new files... but it shouldn´t take 2 days for Spotlight to index it...
What can I do so Spotlight starts indexing new or changed files?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Sitting in front of computer
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Spotlight is supposed to index any new files, or any files you edit.
you should not have to do anything (in theory)
works for me - i.e. if i add text to a file, i can then search for it straight away
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Agent69
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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the underpinnings of spotlight mean that it doesn't need to index new files, any write to the disk, be it a new file or a modification of an existing one, is automatically added to the spotlight index, thats the beauty of it, index once, never need to think about it again.
This was the flaw with sherlock's find by content, it searched all well and good but you had to continually update the index.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: suburban Chicago
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In my case, I moved my iphoto library from an external to my internal. It had already been indexed, however, in the old location. This morning, I renamed some photos that had been added to the library Monday morning, just for a test. Spotlight cannot find any of the photos by their "digital photo number" nor is it finding the new ones by name. Do I have to somehow force spotlight to reindex the library? Somehow, I'm thinking it should be easier than this.
On the other hand, earlier this week it did a great job finding something for me. but that was words in a document.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Iceland
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Well thanks for the answers... but I will just have to wait for 10.4.1 to see if it fixes my problem... because no new or edited files show up in Spotlight results...
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Michigan, USA
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I'm having the same problem with Spotlight not updating files, at least not immediately. It's been a day and I'm still waiting for a pdf I downloaded to be updated by Spotlight.
edit: something I noticed… when I moved the downloaded file off the desktop to another folder then Spotlight indexed it. Anybody else notice files on the desktop not being indexed?
(Last edited by d0ubled0wn; May 12, 2005 at 04:01 PM.
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