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    Sorry, misread the OP. My bad.<br>
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    On 03/04/2012 14:10, Paul Andr&eacute; wrote:
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      <div>I thought that Apple Mail search was (somewhat?) separate
        from Spotlight?</div>
      <div>reindex mail:&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html</a></div>
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        <div>On 3 Apr 2012, at 07:51, Jules wrote:</div>
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          <div>Go to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy.<br>
            Add you hard disk to the list of places not to index.<br>
            Wait a few seconds.<br>
            Remove it again.<br>
            That will delete the spotlight database.<br>
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            Also worth checking what types of file you are indexing in
            the settings while you're there.<br>
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            Jules.<br>
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            On 03/04/2012 12:48, m.c. schraefel wrote:<br>
            <blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite">how can i get apple mail to reindex
              its search?<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite">it's just not finding stuff a few
              months old or older that i know is in there...<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite">thank you for your help<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite">m.c.<br>
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            Jules<br>
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