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Apple spotlight search not listing folders at top of search.
I have a Macbook pro running a clean install of Lion on an SSD located in the primary hard drive bay. In my optical bay I used an Optibay to install my old hard drive. My apps and osx run on the SSD and my old hard drive has all my files on it. The problem is, now my spotlight searches are not very accurate. Even worse is that the only way I can get a folder name to show up as a top hit is if I uncheck all the different document types in the lion search results settings page. Otherwise pdfs and .xls docs bury the folder names, even if I search for the exact folder name. Please help me get spotlight back to how it used to be! It is my favorite tool.
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I gave this a try but it did not fix the problem. Do you have any other recommendations?
I doubt DiskWarrior is ready for Lion, but if it is, I would definitely give that a shot. Works miracles with various drive issues.
Did you reformat your old HD and retransfer the data back to it? If not I would recommend that. It will be just as good as running DW.
Also, did you do a fairly clean install of Lion on the SSD or did you do some funky kind of file copy from the old HD? Might want to reformat that drive and set it up as cleanly as possible.
Did you reformat your old HD and retransfer the data back to it? If not I would recommend that. It will be just as good as running DW.
Also, did you do a fairly clean install of Lion on the SSD or did you do some funky kind of file copy from the old HD? Might want to reformat that drive and set it up as cleanly as possible.
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The only thing that worked was to do a clean install on lion and make sure my secondary hard drive no longer contained os files from my old Leopard install. I was hoping to avoid this, but thanks for the advice.
You used my solution and then awarded the points to the other answer. Oh well.
nccrick, please use the request attention link in the original post above, and it can be sorted out properly ;^)
That's ok. win some lose some. Thanks for the heads up though.
Guess if I had looked at your profile first I would have realized you likely already knew ;^)
cheers!
Oh, and thank you --both- for the pints then 8^)
cheers!
Oh, and thank you --both- for the pints then 8^)
no, actually I didn't really know. If I knew, I probably wouldn't have been wining like a school girl. - Cheers
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2007/08/29/rebuilding-spotlights-index-on-os-x-manually/
http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/15/spotlight-wont-work-fix-a-broken-spotlight-menu-with-these-troubleshooting-tips/