After installing Snow Leopard my email messages from Entourage are not showing up in spotlight searched.
I have tried going to Preferences-> Spotlight in entourage and pressing 'rebuild' but that doesn't seem to do the trick.
After installing Snow Leopard my email messages from Entourage are not showing up in spotlight searched.
I have tried going to Preferences-> Spotlight in entourage and pressing 'rebuild' but that doesn't seem to do the trick.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I heavily rely on this feature.
If I had to pick one thing that is a fundamental feature of the OS, not just Mac OS but any OS, it's the ability to find files - and that functionality is all but completely broken in Leopard. Spotlight in Leopard absolutely sucks. It doesn't find files, it's slow, and there are few options for how to sort found files.
I can't count the number of times that I have tried using it to quickly locate a file, but it can't find it, even thought it's right there on my hard drive. I manually navigate to the file, and yep, I spelled it right...there it is. But it just doesn't appear in the Spotlight results list.
I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard from Tiger 10.4.11. But I want to know which of the apps I have will work on Leopard to be sure that I want to upgrade. Which of these apps work on Snow Leopard? means I need this app to work in order for me to upgrade, so tell me if these apps with this mark don't work on Snow Leopard!
*1. 1password
*2. Adobe Media Player, photoshop CS4, Premier Pro CS4 (works)
*3. AIM
4. ClamXav (works)
5. DisApeAr
*6. Divx PLayer
*7. Dot.Tunes, Dot.Tunes HookUp
8. Flip4Mac (works)
*9. GimmeSomeTune
10. Internet Cleanup
*11. iSquint
*12. Little Snitch (works)
13. MP3 Trimmer
*14. PulpMotion
*15. Screencap
16. Sponge
17. Spring Cleaning
*18. Stuffit Deluxe
*19. VisualHub (works)
*20. VLC (works)
21. Windows Media Player
*22. WireTap Studio
So which of these apps work on Snow Leopard, is what I want to know?
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To better explain my problem:
I was looking for a document that was called "Paperless". Spotlight found several document in different folders like "Paperlessone", Paperless2" etc. But not able to find "Paperless"
I checked the Spotlight options and it says, that it is looking for everything.
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1) I have done the primitive Add to Privacy and Remove Dance nothing has changed.
2) I have used Terminal, deleted all .Spotlight-V100 indexes, disabled Spotlight rebooted, renabled it and rebooted—nothing has changed. This included carefully following steps in other posters' accounts (some failed, some succeeded) and a site that gave a particularly thorough version.
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McBk w/10.6.8, QkSlvrG4 w/10.3,10.4
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I have tried mdutil -i on /Volumes/Network drive and mdutil -E
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