dtadin
October 21st, 2008, 12:57 PM
Well it seems boxee heavly uses spotlight, I been having problems for a few days now with my spotlight index not finding anything on my system.
After installing boxee the thing wouldn't pull any data at all on the main page everything was loading, all my sources just sat there with the white twirling circle.
I just found this site followed these directions to reset my index for spotlight and it seemed to fix the issue.
http://tech.kateva.org/2005/05/tiger-fixing-spotlight-gone-bad.html
Steps:
1) Using the mdutil command-line utility in Terminal, turn off indexing for each of your drives. example:
$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
2) Then use mdutil to remove the indexes from each drive
$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
3) Physically remove the .Spotlight directories from the root of each drive.
$ cd /
$ sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100
(do the same for your second or third drive) BE CAREFUL WITH THAT RM COMMAND! One typo could ruin your day.
4) Use mdutil again to turn indexing back on for each drive
$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
5) Spotlight will now re-index all drives and should behave in a normal fashion. (It will take a while depending on how much data you have on your drive, it took me about a half hour to index my macbook 120gig with 30gig free.)
Figured I throw it out here for other people with the same issue..
Dennis
After installing boxee the thing wouldn't pull any data at all on the main page everything was loading, all my sources just sat there with the white twirling circle.
I just found this site followed these directions to reset my index for spotlight and it seemed to fix the issue.
http://tech.kateva.org/2005/05/tiger-fixing-spotlight-gone-bad.html
Steps:
1) Using the mdutil command-line utility in Terminal, turn off indexing for each of your drives. example:
$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
2) Then use mdutil to remove the indexes from each drive
$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
3) Physically remove the .Spotlight directories from the root of each drive.
$ cd /
$ sudo rm -fr .Spotlight-V100
(do the same for your second or third drive) BE CAREFUL WITH THAT RM COMMAND! One typo could ruin your day.
4) Use mdutil again to turn indexing back on for each drive
$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_1
$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/your_hard_drive_name_2
5) Spotlight will now re-index all drives and should behave in a normal fashion. (It will take a while depending on how much data you have on your drive, it took me about a half hour to index my macbook 120gig with 30gig free.)
Figured I throw it out here for other people with the same issue..
Dennis