Reindex spotlight in OS X Leopard

December 15, 2007 11:19


I recently upgraded to OS x Leopard, and afterwards noticed that spotlight was failing to find certain applications. It was necessary to delete the index database in order to force reindexing. This is done using the mdutil application.

You can find out what it does by opening a terminal window, and typing:

man mdutil

But, if you just want to straight ahead and remove the index database, open a terminal window, and type the following:

sudo mdutil -E /


Comments

tominko May 26, 2008 00:16

not working to me, in file info in spotlight tab it shows on one image file 80KB (679x1068 pixels) but if i list the folder 'ls -h' it shows on the same file 3.7K and if i open the file its 56x88 pixels

Tim January 03, 2008 22:32

Thanks for that.

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