[chasg]

Hi All,

I've got a hard drive with 56Gb of assorted data on it, but Spotlight/Find can't, well, find anything that is there.

I can certainly open the data, and I can of course see it, but Spotlight can't. How come?

Oh, and I've checked to see if I manually prevented Spotlight from seeing into that HD. That's not where the problem is.

Any suggestions?

Chas

[TETENAL]

Spotlight doesn't look into certain system folders.

[chasg]

Thanks for replying TETENAL.

Good to know, but the folder in question is at the root of the drive (not in a System folder or System Folder)

Cheers,

Chas

[mikelauder]

Might be worth trying to add the drive to the spotlight exclude list and then removing it straight away which will re-index the drive.

Is it an external FW or USB drive?

[chasg]

Good suggestion, I"ve done so (hope it works).

It's an internal drive, by the way.

Chas

[mikelauder]

under the spotlight menu, does it tell you that it's indexing?

[chasg]

Yes, thanks for pointing that out (I was wondering how I'd know...)

Chas

[mikelauder]

Cool, it should work fine once that's finished.

[chasg]

Much appreciated!

Any idea how Spotlight lost track of an entire drive?

[mikelauder]

No idea

[chasg]

Oh well :-)