Comments on: Spotlight not finding new files?

By: kg

kg — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:13:19 +0000

Success!: system preferences>spotlight>privacy>adding entire hard drive. Restart and then remove entire hard drive. Caused spotlight to reindex hard drive. Thanks for the help.

By: john doe

john doe — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:37:59 +0000

My issue is/was similar to Matt’s. Spotlight would find some things, but not others. No pattern. For example I had it search for “.css” and it didn’t find anything after 3 minutes of searching. When I had it look for “stylesheet.css”, it found it immediately.
Other times, I could type the exact name or a partial name of the only file in a folder and it wouldn’t find it.
I am yearning for the old Panther search at this point.
I deleted the index and it’s now rebuilding – hopefully that solves the problem.

By: Matt Fleming

Matt Fleming — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:19:51 +0000

I have had intermittent problems with spotlight on my macbook pro. Sometimes it would find stuff, sometimes it finds absolutely nothing. Here's the problem and the solution.. http://mattfleming.com/node/120

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:49:55 +0000

AWESOME, worked perfectly! Thanks heaps!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:53:41 +0000

I’ve been having problems with this as well. Applecare has no idea how to fix it, I’ve tried that and no avail.
My column view hangs as well. I think its related.
the other error I get is:
323: Can’t checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0×10000004
Chris

By: Dave Poirier

Dave Poirier — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:22:26 +0000

I had a similar problem to the described user where mdutil could not indicate the current indexing status on the volume.
I proceeded with the tip given by Glenn and it fixed my problem.
Thanks!

By: James Porter

James Porter — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:34:47 +0000

I think it might have something to do with office, I forgot my unix command option for rmdir to delete subfolders even if they aren’t empty so i went in finder..those .mdimporters have the little office icons on them..don’t know but it might be a relation..office try to open metadata….rofl
please e-mail me if someone find solution or comments

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:28:36 +0000

fixed it.
delete /Library/Spotlight
delete /.Spotlight-v100/*.* (something like that)
repair disk permissions on OS drive with disk Utility
reboot
hope it helps

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:29:10 +0000

I have this same issue with the MDUtil. Spotlight does not find any files and i get the same errors as above.
-Error, no index found for volume.
-Could not set indexing status for volume.
Did you fix yours yet

By: Arlo

Arlo — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:05:23 +0000

I get these errors when I try (Spotlight used to work, now doesn’t — can’t find anything. When I try to add my hard drive to privacy to trigger re-indexing, it doesn’t take (i.e. it won’t add it to list).) When I attempt to correct in terminal, I run into the problems below. Thoughts?
Arlo-Devlin-Browns-Computer:~ arlo$ sudo mdutil -E /
Password:
/:
Error, no index found for volume.
Arlo-Devlin-Browns-Computer:~ arlo$ sudo mdutil -i on /
/:
Could not set indexing status for volume.