matt neuburg wrote:
> sawney beane <beadle1833.RemoveThis@fmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> matt neuburg wrote:
>>> sawney beane <beadle1833.RemoveThis@fmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In the past I've *thought* Spotlight failed to find some documents when
>>>> I searched by content. Yesterday I used Spotlight to search a certain
>>>> folder by content and found that the folder's content had apparently not
>>>> been included in Spotlight's index.
>>>>
>>>> How can I make Spotlight index the content of a folder?
>>> man mdimport
>>>
>>> m.
>>>
>> Thanks. Should I type that into the console?
>
> The Terminal. It will teach you about forcing a folder to be indexed.
Found it. I'm not sure how to use the information. Will it index if I
simply type mdimport?
>
>> Why wouldn't that folder already be indexed?
>
> Some areas are protected from indexing, by default. You can protect
> others from indexing by your settings in System Preferences. And
> sometimes things do just break down.
>
> By the way, also "man mdls". You can use "mdls" to find out what
> Spotlight knows about a given file.
>
>> I created that folder a few weeks ago as a copy of a folder of ducuments
>> in MS Word 5. In this folder I opened and saved each document as a
>> ClarisWorks 5 document so I could open it with AppleWorks 6. Spotlight
>> has indexed other ClarisWorks 5 documents.
>>
> What I'd do in your case is separate two issues: (1) are the files being
> seen by Spotlight at all, and (2) is their content being indexed. To
> find out the former, do a name search for the name of one of the files
> in that folder. If Spotlight doesn't know about the file at all, that's
> why the content isn't being indexed. On the other hand, if it does know
> about the file but the content still isn't being indexed, that suggests
> that Spotlight doesn't know how to read that type of file (i.e. it
> hasn't an importer).
>
> You can use my free NotLight program as a way of controlling easily
> precisely what you ask Spotlight. For example, with NotLight two issues
> distinguished above are easily kept distinct, since you are in clear
> charge of what kind of search you're doing. m.
>
It seems to see all file names. It seems to see the content of Word 5
files saved in 1991, but not my Word 5 files saved from 1992 to 2005. I
thought it had the content of my ClarisWorks files, but now it's not
finding it.
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