Spotlight Issues!

[Steve Levin]

Hi,

I was having some problems with Spotlight and Entourage in that it was
showing messages with their generic xxxx.VrgeMessage titles but I've
now fixed this to a point by using Onyx to reset the Spotlight index
forcing my disk to be re-indexed. This has restored the subjects and
dates to the search results and it appears all of the metadata is
intact...

I also rebuilt my database file while the re-index was going on as a
way to make sure everything was OK with that side of things..

However, I now have a new problem...

Now when I do a spotlight search it gives results correctly but when I
try to open one it says 'Entourage cannot open this item' 'To view the
item, switch to the .-Steve Levin identity'

I only have one identity and that it the 'Steve Levin' one so I'm
confused about this...

Any ideas how this can be fixed... Looks like some kind of permissions
thing but I'm no expert!

Thanks in advance,

Steve.

 

[William Smith]

Hi,

I was having some problems with Spotlight and Entourage in that it was
showing messages with their generic xxxx.VrgeMessage titles but I've
now fixed this to a point by using Onyx to reset the Spotlight index
forcing my disk to be re-indexed. This has restored the subjects and
dates to the search results and it appears all of the metadata is
intact...

I also rebuilt my database file while the re-index was going on as a
way to make sure everything was OK with that side of things..

However, I now have a new problem...

Now when I do a spotlight search it gives results correctly but when I
try to open one it says 'Entourage cannot open this item' 'To view the
item, switch to the .-Steve Levin identity'

I only have one identity and that it the 'Steve Levin' one so I'm
confused about this...

Any ideas how this can be fixed... Looks like some kind of permissions
thing but I'm no expert!

Hi Steve!

Have you recently renamed your identity or rebuilt your database?
Something may have become disassociated. You can recreate your Spotlight
cache for Entourage by going to the Entourage menu --> Preferences -->
Spotlight and clicking the Rebuild button.

Hope this helps! bill