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Spotlight not indexing a drive
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HyperX
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Jun 4, 2007, 10:49 AM
 
Spotlight is not indexing a secondary drive (non removable drive). I already checked the spotlight settings under system preferences, and did not see that drive marked as private. Under the disk utility, enable journaling is grayed out - so dont think thats the issue. Anyone have any ideas? My exact same configured Mac Pro that I have at home doesn't have this issue.
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HyperX  (op)
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Jun 19, 2007, 11:09 AM
 
I guess no one knows. One advantage of running Ubuntu or even Windows. When you post on those forums, you get an answer right away. I guess this is one disadvantage of moving to the Mac - hardly anyone uses it. And even less people know how to trouble shoot Macs.
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Jun 19, 2007, 12:50 PM
 
Actually, Ubuntu's marketshare is much smaller than the Mac's.

Anyway, try adding the drive to the Spotlight exclusion list and then removing it.
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Hal Itosis
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Jun 19, 2007, 03:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by HyperX View Post
I guess no one knows. One advantage of running Ubuntu or even Windows. When you post on those forums, you get an answer right away. I guess this is one disadvantage of moving to the Mac - hardly anyone uses it. And even less people know how to trouble shoot Macs.
Give us something to look at. Like...

sudo ls -lo /Volumes{,/*/.Spotlight-V*}
sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/*

...for example.

Actually, mdutil has other options that should probably get things going.
(stop indexing, erase old index, start indexing, etc.)
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Jun 19, 2007, 11:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by HyperX View Post
I guess no one knows. One advantage of running Ubuntu or even Windows. When you post on those forums, you get an answer right away. I guess this is one disadvantage of moving to the Mac - hardly anyone uses it. And even less people know how to trouble shoot Macs.
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Jun 20, 2007, 01:27 PM
 
Another possibility... this secondary drive isn't HFS+ format?
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