[OSX-Users] Re: mail (apple) search failing? rebuild search??

[Paul André]

I thought that Apple Mail search was (somewhat?) separate from Spotlight?
reindex mail: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html

On 3 Apr 2012, at 07:51, Jules wrote:

> Go to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy.
> Add you hard disk to the list of places not to index.
> Wait a few seconds.
> Remove it again.
> That will delete the spotlight database.
> 
> Also worth checking what types of file you are indexing in the settings while you're there.
> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 03/04/2012 12:48, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> how can i get apple mail to reindex its search?
>> 
>> it's just not finding stuff a few months old or older that i know is in there...
>> 
>> 
>> thank you for your help
>> 
>> 
>> m.c.
> 
> Jules
> 
> -- 
> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> 

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