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

[Jules]

Sorry, misread the OP. My bad.

On 03/04/2012 14:10, Paul André wrote:
> 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 <mailto:sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>
>

Jules

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