<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Paul <div>that seems to have done it.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for the effort, Jules.</div><div><br></div><div>mc<br><div><div>On 3 Apr 2012, at 14:10, Paul André wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I thought that Apple Mail search was (somewhat?) separate from Spotlight?</div><div>reindex mail: <a 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><br><div><div>On 3 Apr 2012, at 07:51, Jules wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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><br>Also worth checking what types of file you are indexing in the settings while you're there.<br><br>Jules.<br><br>On 03/04/2012 12:48, m.c. schraefel wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">how can i get apple mail to reindex its search?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it's just not finding stuff a few months old or older that i know is in there...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thank you for your help<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">m.c.<br></blockquote><br>Jules<br><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:sysjkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk">sysjkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>