Spotlight not working; 11.2.5 on Macbook

[Steven Day]

Reposting here with some more information. Still am not able to get
Spotlight to search my Entourage messages.

11.2.5
OS 10.4.7
MacBook
Spotlight search checked under preferences
Rebuilt DB used by Spotlight (preferences)


Hi,

It would appear that on my MacBook, Spotlight is no longer able to search
Entourage at all. I have reindexed using Onyx, and run SpotlightIndexer
(indexing the User/library/caches/MS/Entourage/Main ID/ folder) but no luck.
I can confirm on my iMac G5 that Spotlight is indexing Entourage fine.

Are Mactel users out of luck? Or is it possible to still search Entourage
with Spotlight?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Ross]

It would appear that on my MacBook, Spotlight is no longer able to search
Entourage at all. I have reindexed using Onyx, and run SpotlightIndexer
(indexing the User/library/caches/MS/Entourage/Main ID/ folder) but no luck.
I can confirm on my iMac G5 that Spotlight is indexing Entourage fine.

Are Mactel users out of luck? Or is it possible to still search Entourage
with Spotlight?

You could be missing something as simple as checking Mail Messages.
Contacts, Events & To Do Items in Spotlight System Preferences? These
options do not apply to just Apple's applications.

Check these suggestions on using Spotlight with Entourage:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/sync_services.html#upgrade1>

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

 

[Steven Day]

Thanks for the reply Diane. As far as I know, everything necessary to index
Entourage metadata has been done. I moved the md.importer, per the
suggestion from the site mentioned below. Still no luck.

I trust others have already been able to do this on an Intel machine? Some
things, such as Schubert's pdf browser plugin, do not work on the new
architecture.

Thanks again.

 

[Steven Day]

OK, running a command line from terminal did the trick. Sorry I don't recall
the exact command off the top of my head. Found information about it in the
Apple Forums under Spotlight.

Now all is working again.