Whaley’s Place

First off, as far as OS search tools go…Apple did get Spotlight right this time around in Leopard. Well, I ended up corrupting some of the permissions on my drive and in the course of things broke Spotllight. After fixing the permission issues on my machine, I still had an incomplete index…. Here is how to rebuild the indexes…

1. Open System Preferences
2. Open Spotlight Prefs
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click the + and add your drive to re-index
5. Wait about 30 seconds and then delete it from the Privacy list. This will force Spotlight to reindex the target drive again.

Spotlight index