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Leopard Finder Not Finding?!?
Hi,
I’m on 10.5.2.
When I do a search through Finder, it doesn’t find files that I KNOW are there.
I’ve got about 4 FW800 drives daisy-chained, and one other Mac with 2-3 drives connected via the network.
But Finder is having a hard time finding files on several of the drives.
Is there a way to index the Finder to force it to search all drives, or is the problem the more probably ‘user’ [ie, me doing some shtoopid].
To clarify, my Finder can SEE all the drives, and I navigate, copy, etc via the finder, it just doesn’t seem to SEARCH all the drives, all the time.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Wayne
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3 Replies
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Hi Wayne,
The problem may come from FC, or may come from your System.
When I have this kind of problems I start by making sure that the System is OK. You have thousand more possibilities of a malfunction in the System than in FC. If after optimizing the System-HDs, the problem remais, then I start to clean FC.
So, repair permissions, cleaning caches and DiskWarrior or TechTools. If no improvement, trash permissions, etc
Cheers,
rafaelMac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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I’ve seen this a lot when I batch export a large number of files.
It seems spotlight needs “some” time to update its database before it can find stuff.
This can vary from a couple of seconds to about an hour…
Gunleik
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Make sure your Spotlight Prefs (System Prefs>Spotlight>Privacy) allow indexing of those volumes, which, as mentioned, does take some time to do. You could also use, as I do, a third-party search app such as DevonTechnologies’ EasyFind . Fast, and easily customized to search wherever and for whatever files you wish.
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