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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050424201429961

For people uncomfortable with using command line, etc., another way to delete a volume's Spotlight index is to open the Spotlight prefpane, and drag the volume to Spotlight's "Privacy" window. The index will be deleted immediately. To get Spotlight to re-index the volume, remove it from the Privacy list.

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You can also do this from the command line with the mdutil command. Launch Terminal and enter:

sudo mdutil -E /

and the index file will be erased and rebuilt. The "/" stands for the boot volume; you can substitute the pathname of any volume here.

Substitute "-s" for "-E" to show if indexing is enabled on the volume, and "-i on" or "-i off" to enable or disable indexing. Note that mdutil must be run as root; hence the sudo.

You can also use mdimport to index a subset of files:

mdimport ~/Documents

would index your Documents folder and

mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/AppleWorks.mdimporter

would index all AppleWorks files on your computer.

mdimport -L

will list all installed metadata importers.

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Tip voor het openen van alle muziek files in je muziekfolder als die niet geindexeerd worden:

spotlight wouldn't find any of my iTunes tracks nomatter what I did. The same for some word documents. However, they both got indexed when I openned them in the finder (not when I played the tunes in iTunes). So I opened iTunes and minimized it (important or you'll have to leave your mac alone a while) and turned off the sound (you may like it but it's a pretty odd effect). Then ran the command below

find ~/Music -name '*.mp3' -or -name '*m4p' -exec open {} \;

This opens in turns each and every track. Voilla, indexed.

May be worth a try if the mdimport command gives no mileage.

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