[l008com]

So since upgrading to Lion, my spotlight has been kinda... forgetful. I can type the exact name of many of my files, and not get a hit. Even after I find my files manually, open them, with their folder open in the finder, spotlight still can't find them. Is there an easy way to re-index everything? I did check my privacy settings, the only folder in there is the roxio items folder.

[Cold Warrior]

the app Onyx under maintenance > rebuild will let you rebuild the Spotlight index.

[Curiosity]

Why not just use Easyfind? Since Snow Leopard (or maybe even Leopard), Spotlight has been unable to find files in the Library. To me that seems crippled.

[l008com]

That OnyX program sucks. The thing quits all of your apps without asking and unmount the boot disk to check it. I don't want my disk checked, all I want is to reindex my drive. Is there a CLI way to do this that doesn't involve abusing my Mac.

[Big Mac]

You could try something like: sudo mdutil -i on /

[l008com]

Yeah I did google up some commands that caused a re-indexing. But I still don't seem to be getting any results out of my home folder. That seems to be the situation. Things in my home folder aren't showing up in searches. I suspect that this has something to do with my home folder not being located on my boot drive. BUT I have no exclusions of type, or drive in my spotlight settings, so it SHOULD be searching that drive too. Maybe it's a Lion bug?