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Unable to search non-boot drives
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roller
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Feb 17, 2009, 08:57 PM
 
When executing a find (command f) in the finder, it appears the find does not work on any non-boot drive.

For example, in my Mac Pro (10.5.6), the find command works fine for the boot device, but when selecting another internal drive or a connected server in the resulting finder window, the find never returns any results, even if I search for a known file.

Very confusing. Any thoughts?
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Feb 17, 2009, 09:36 PM
 
Check your Spotlight preferences (Privacy tab) to see if you may have excluding these other locations from indexing.

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Feb 17, 2009, 09:51 PM
 
Nope... there is nothing excluded from spotlight indexing.
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Feb 17, 2009, 10:31 PM
 
Try re-indexing the drive:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409

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Feb 18, 2009, 06:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by ibook_steve View Post
Try re-indexing the drive:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409

Steve
Thanks... I'll try tomorrow.
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