Comments on: Spotlight won’t work? Fix a broken Spotlight menu with these troubleshooting tips

By: Jacob Palme

Jacob Palme — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:37:49 +0000

Has anyone seen this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1210676
It is a way of reindexing spoltlight without having to use Terminal

By: Jacob Palmd

Jacob Palmd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:16:03 +0000

Des the command

sudo mdutil -E /

get Spotlight to work on all volumes when I have my hard disk partititioned into multiple volumes? Or should I ad an “*” somewhere to get the command to redo the Spotligt index on all volumes?

By: iphonermac

iphonermac — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:14:44 +0000

Never mind…It seems that trying various combinations of these methods fixed the problem. Thanks

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:30:37 +0000

My problem is that the indexing never finishes (57 hours estimated time!!). The problem arose when I swapped out the HDD for a new model and used time machine to restore. Worked a charm apart from spotlight. I have used all the tips above, repaired permissions but no joy. When I repair disk I was getting a lot of ACL issues but according to apple I can ignore these BUT I still got rid of them using ACLr8 but still no improvement. I am at my wits end!!

By: tom

tom — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:32 +0000

solution 3 worked like a charm!

By: clarissa

clarissa — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:41:56 +0000

I tell you if MM will help- So far thanks in ad.

By: Googligoo

Googligoo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:10:42 +0000

Thanks much!

By: Betty McGuinness

Betty McGuinness — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:44:04 +0000

THANK YOU!!!

By: TubeUil

TubeUil — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:42:13 +0000

thanks a lot, no 1 worked like a charm! Glad you shared that knowledge.

By: alapdia

alapdia — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:36:37 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:46:20 +0000

Wow, #1 did it for me. Incredible. I hope I don’t have to do this all the time (Spotlight has been broken for me a long time even though I reboot every day, so I don’t think killing that process just once will fix it forever).

By: spambot

spambot — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:21:13 +0000

… and tip 2 gives “error no index found for volume”

By: spambot

spambot — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:17:44 +0000

SystemUIServer is not showing at all in activity monitor for me, and NO search functions are working, not just spotlight.

aaaaaaaargh

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By: John Solaperto

John Solaperto — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:44:56 +0000

Solution #1 did it for me. Thanks!