How to enable Spotlight to read Mailsmith messages?
jprint714
Hi,
Since recently upgrading to Snow Tiger, my Mailsmith messages no
longer appear when I do a search in Spotlight.
Does anyone have suggestions on how best to fix this?
Thanks!
Richard Fairbanks
Greetings!
The info. appended below didn’t allow iCal to do any finds for
me (it still doesn’t work), but it did reindex my drive and is
now showing results from my Mailsmith database. Give it a try.
It might (or might not) work.
Blessings.
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Just got off the phone with Apple Tech support. Their fix worked
for me. See below steps:
1) open System Preferences
2) select Spotlight
3) select Privacy tab
4) click "+" to add a folder or disk
5) in the pop-up menu, select "Macintosh HD" [Your hard drive]
6) click "Choose"
7) upon seeing the Macintosh HD added to the Spotlight
locations, then click "-" to remove the disk
8) close System Preferences
9) open Spotlight
At this point, you should see Spotlight reindexing. This took my
system about 40 minutes to run. I let it run while doing some
other things on my Macbook, occasionally checking Spotlight for
the status. The "minutes remaining" often increased. After it
finished though, I was able to use Spotlight (find) in iCal
again without problems. Good luck!
jprint714
Thank you very much for the suggestion. In fact, I tried this and
fully re-indexed my drive as well. But...to no avail. It still
didn't work. Very frustrating.
Any other ideas...?
Thanks.
jprint714
Just downloaded and install Mailsmith version 2.2.3 (308) and then re-
indexed my Spotlight. But Spotlight still isn't able to find any
Mailsmith files -- at all. Any suggestions? Thanks!
jprint714
By the way, I just updated to Mac OS 10.6.2 then re-indexed my
Spotlight again. Unfortunately, Spotlight still isn't able to find
ANY
Mailsmith files. Any other ideas / suggestions?
Thanks!