Fix a broken Spotlight on external hard drive

morton — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:55:34 +0000

Recently, my OS X Leopard system ceased showing to me all the important files on my external hard drive in a spotlight search. A general Spotlight reset did not help, as it only reindexed the system hard drive.

Luckily, you can manually rebuild the index via terminal:

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/[Drive Name]

Here is links to the Apple manual pages for
mdutil and mdimport

By mdimport you can manually add information on new files and directories to your Spotlight index.

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Fix a broken Spotlight on external hard drive