Re: Strange "find" problem with OS X 10.4.11

Try rebuilding the Spotlight database:

http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2006/07/21.1.shtml

Ian

On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Eric Fong wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> I'm trying to help a user with what I thought was an usual
> problem. She first needed to search for some documents but
> couldn't find them at all, even with just one word of the document
> title. Then, on a whim, she decided to test out if she could
> "Find" (with the Find option) documents that were on her desktop.
> It turns out the Find feature could not. We tried to "add" the
> desktop to the search options which included the hard drive and
> user icon, but that still couldn't find the docs. Only when I made
> a duplicate of a document and put it into the "Macintosh HD" would
> it show up as being "found" and located within the hard drive.
> Does anyone have any explanation as to why this would happen? Thanks.
>
> eric
>
>
> Eric Fong
> Computer Resource Specialist
> Department of Ethnic Studies
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> U.C. Berkeley
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