How to Re-Index Spotlight to Fix Email Search Bug
erics, Posted November 25th, 2009 at 11:08:07am
sudo mdutil -E -i on /
or
You need to get Spotlight to reindex the mail folder (Home/Library/Mail), but you don’t have to mess about in terminal.
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
Click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag the folder to the list.
Remove the item or volume you just added.
~or~
$ sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/
$ sudo killall -9 mdworker
$ sudo killall -9 mds
$ sudo mdutil -i on -E /
/:
Indexing enabled.
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