Find File and Spotlight not working....

Hi all,
Today, I used the find file command to search for survey I needed to print out. I searched for "survey" and nothing was found. I did the same thing in spotlight with the same results. I then searched through folders (the horror) and found the file I was looking for. After opening the file, both "find" and spotlight were able to find the document. A couple of hours ago, I did a search for "memo" - I've got many documents with the word memo in it - both find file and spotlight came up with no results. I did a quick search in the spotlight topic and someone suggested using Yasu to run all of the maintenances - same results. Does anyone know how to reset the index file, or whatever file OS X uses? I'm currently running OS 10.4.5.
Bryan

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Hi Bryan,
Even after so many threads, ideas and turnarounds found on these very Forums by Francine Schwieder and many other geniuses, discussing its doubtful behaviours and trying to make it work better,
personally I don't think I can trust it anymore, rely on it to find something and to positively conclude it's not here if it doesn't find it.
Even if one day I see it finds invisible files at last.
That's why I use EasyFind.
EasyFind always finds everything, just like Panther's Find (⌘F) feature used to, because it uses the same kind of indexing.
Your problem looks like you just didn't give it enough time to index, but anyway, can you rely on it anymore after that?
On my computer, EasyFind has always been stable, problem-free, and unfortunately a little slow.
Enjoy (the other good aspects of) Tiger!
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