Spotlight and 2.1.2

[carloselis]

Hi, i'm brand new of this forum.
I have a problem with spotlight: since i've updated to version 2.1.2, spotlight doesn't search into mellel's documents.
I've dowloaded the latest version of the plugin, but noting have changed.
Any tip?

Thanks.

[SteveH]

There may be some relevant ideas in this thread

[davidfgarrett]

I'm having the same problem. Tried deleting and re-installing the plugin, but to no avail. Spotlight locates document titles but nothing further. (No text within document, no metadata).

[SteveH]

I just had the same problem although for different reasons - migrated to a new Machine and had not installed the plugin.

When I installed the plugin I could not search document contents. To force a re-index in spotlight, I added my Documents folder to the list of of private folders in the Spotlight prefs. Then I removed it.

After this I could search within Mellel docs.

[carloselis]

I've followed the other trhread, and i solved the problem:
i had to delete the old plugin, and re-install the new one.
then i forced spotlight to re-index, the whole macintosh-hd and... that's it.

a little triky, but it works.

[nigel]

"i had to delete the old plugin, and re-install the new one.
then i forced spotlight to re-index, the whole macintosh-hd and... that's it."

I have tried all kinds of things but no luck. I figured that I would just wait until there was a new official release. However, the one thing that I have not tried is making spotlight reindex the whole drive. How do you make spotlight do this?

Thanks,
Nigel

[Mart°n]

However, the one thing that I have not tried is making spotlight reindex the whole drive. How do you make spotlight do this?

This could either be done via a small utility Rebuild Spotlight Index - 2.7

or via the command line (Terminal) by entering sudo mdutil -E / and confirming with your password afterwards.