Advertise with Googlier.com Comments on: on fixing Spotlight issues with mail.app (and others for that matter) http://amuyu.com/archives/27 Thoughts on one of those things Thu, 18 May 2006 01:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.24 By: rshangle http://amuyu.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-20 Thu, 18 May 2006 01:20:18 +0000 http://amuyu.com/archives/27#comment-20 Yeah… the end of that previous comment, which didn’t quite make it, should have indicated that:

mdutil -E /Volume/name

… will blow away all Spotlight metadata for the volume named name… it gets rebuilt automatically later.

r

]]> By: rshangle http://amuyu.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-19 Thu, 18 May 2006 00:30:25 +0000 http://amuyu.com/archives/27#comment-19 Recently went through a similar journey that wound up at a slightly different endpoint. Spotlight appeared to questionably meta-data’d across the board.


trogdor-5:/usr/bin rshangle$ man mdutil
trogdor-5:/usr/bin rshangle$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 292905072 226657840 65991232 77% /
devfs 115 115 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
512 512 0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk1s3 292926240 234826080 58100160 80% /Volumes/Backup0000-0000 1
automount -nsl [194] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [202] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [202] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk2s10 159940248 120330652 39609596 75% /Volumes/dcf0000-0007
/dev/disk3s6 488353088 348079128 140273960 71% /Volumes/Backup0000-0001
/dev/disk4s6 490193424 483202544 6990880 99% /Volumes/Mobile DCF 1
/dev/disk5s2 1162664 857388 305276 74% /Volumes/iDisk 1
http://idisk.mac.com/rshangle/ 2147483647 0 2147483647 0% /Volumes/rshangle
trogdor-5:/usr/bin rshangle$ mdutil -E /Volumes/Backup0000-0001

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