[brianm]

I transfered stuff from and older computer running 10.4.11 to a newer computer running same OS. When I do a search for any of the old stuff from older computer it will not find it, like the computer doesn't know it is there? Is there anyway to do a scan over the whole computer for it to "find" all these transfered files?

[ibook_steve]

Do you mean that you can see the transferred stuff in a Finder window, but when you use Spotlight to find it, it doesn't show up? Is Spotlight still indexing (little flashing dot in the middle of the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen)? What does a Spotlight search produce (press command-space)?

Steve

[Cold Warrior]

Go into System Preferences > Spotlight. Add your entire hard drive to the Privacy section. Wait a couple minutes, then remove it. This should force it to re-index.

If it doesn't, you should delete the index file. Its name is .Spotlight-V100, it's an invisible file, and it should be in the root drive path. You'd need a utility that can see invisible files and delete/remove them, such as WhatSize. I think it's shareware, but it should have at least enough use time to take care of this job for you.