Spotlight & Thunderbird Mail

Is there a way to have Spotlight search Thunderbird Mail?
Thunderbird makes great HTML mail which is essential to my home based business, especially tables for layout.
Spotlight searches Entourage and Apple Mail just fine.
Spotlight is one of the most useful features of OSX for me, it's an incredible time saver.
Thanks in advance.

As a workaround I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
PS. funny how different things work for different people... Spotlight is the bane of my existence!

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Spotlight and mail searches not working, but...

I contacted Apple Support by phone and they had me go through all of the procedures to re-index the meta data and so on on my iMac and still my Spotlight and Mail searches are not working properly. (I cannot find certain files even though I know they exist...more often than not!) Supposedly, when I "forced" a re-index operation by going to Spotlight Preferences and changing Privacy settings for the entire hard disk and then changing them back, the Spotlight icon on the top right of the menubar was supposed to indicate that re-indexing was taking place, but that never happened. It seems that I possibly have a corrupt metadata file which just won't re-index, or some kind of permission changed which doesn't allow re-indexing to happen, or SOMETHING like that.
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I asked this question at a semi-local Apple Store Genius Bar as well, and they were scratching their heads. I have not yet brought the machine in to the store --- if I can avoid that lengthy step, I'd much prefer to fix this here in my office. (The machine works fine otherwise, and I need it here all the time, it's just that searching doesn't work)
I have also tried a re-install over the existing OS (leaving all my apps and documents in place), but have not tried a complete erase-and-install installation. I have a complete Time Machine backup of the entire drive, but the question remains...if I use Apple Migration Assistant to bring the apps and documents back in from Time Machine after doing a "clean" install on a wiped-clean hard drive, won't Time Machine also restore the old metadata that I suspect is corrupt? If so, how would I go about restoring all of my apps and documents without the use of the Migration Assistant or the Time Machine backup file (which may contain a corrupt index file)? If I do a hard drive clone with one of the available utilities dedicated to that purpose, how do I restore JUST the things I need (including serial numbers, etc) without risk of bringing over "bad" index files?
By the way, this machine was running Snow Leopard for well over a year before I upgraded to Lion, with no searching problems whatsoever.
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Hi Linc,
I was able to get some text to appear by choosing "All Messages" from the Error Log list. Here's what I got when i filtered "mdworker" (I have indicated where I removed repetitions):
3/14/12 9:24:10.617 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
failed to parse embedded CMap.
3/14/12 9:24:10.617 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
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3/14/12 9:24:10.622 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
*** process 2211 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded ***
3/14/12 9:24:26.203 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
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3/14/12 9:24:55.603 PM
mdworker
Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
3/20/12 3:54:30.197 PM
mdworker32
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3/20/12 3:54:30.735 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
3/20/12 3:54:30.736 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
3/20/12 3:54:30.736 PM
com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
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3/14/12 9:35:35.672 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/14/12 10:45:54.051 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/14/12 11:45:55.907 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 12:45:53.271 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 1:45:52.702 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 2:45:52.837 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 3:45:52.046 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 4:45:51.586 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 5:45:51.996 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 6:45:52.049 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 7:45:51.647 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 8:46:05.149 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 1:27:56.526 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 2:25:20.942 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/15/12 3:26:14.623 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
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(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/20/12 9:46:04.479 AM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/20/12 3:54:42.852 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/20/12 4:23:54.016 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
3/20/12 5:23:56.550 PM
mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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mds
(Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
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What is altering my Thunderbird mail files?

I have a non-boot volume that used to be my main boot volume. Harkening back to when it was a boot volume, it has Mozilla Thunderbird mailboxes, in
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/me/Library/Thunderbird/(etc. etc.)/LocalMail/(mailboxes)
This is a clean install of the OS. There's virtually no third-party software installed except for DiskWarrior.
Anyway, I've been rescuing data from that disk using "tar", which has very robust failure recovery.
tar cf - * | (cd /Volumes/Newdrive/Bucket; tar xvf -)
And on many of my local Mail "folders" (really big files), tar reports
"This file changed while I was reading it."
Um -- what would possibly be altering mailbox files on a non-boot volume on a system with only the default 10.4.11 Tiger installed and no other software? Is it like Spotlight trying to search inside the files for individual emails?
Also - any idea what's in /users/me/Library/Caches/.tmp0/01/02/351239863-1351958-235235.cache and 10,000 other files like that? A very significant fraction of the "bad sectors" on my drive were under these files.

Is it like Spotlight trying to search inside the files for individual emails?
Good catch, be sure to stop Spotlight while doing this, by adding your drives to it's Privacy tab in it's pref pane. Or it could be the drive electronics being flaky also.
/users/me/Library/Caches/.tmp0/01/02/351239863-1351958-235235.cache and 10,000 other files like that?
Nothing of use really.

When I open Mozilla Thunderbird mail it shows an icon'home' page with Email/Accounts/Advanced Features. How do I get out of this and back to my regular Email .

I'm sorry but I have lost my ability to get back to my opening Thunderbird page. It was working but went to a completely different start -up page as I mentioned in my original statement in my question. Also the system is very slow to respond and will repeatedly say it is not responding.

That is the screen that displays when you click on the actual email address in the Folder Pane instead of the Inbox folder.
If you have a folder pane showing click on the Inbox folder to see your mail.
If you are missing the folder pane, turn it back on.
From the Menu Bar select View-Layout-Folder Pane
No menu bar showing? Press the alt key.

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2.93 ghz intel core i7
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10/30/14 11:39:08.444 PM gkbisd[28620]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:39:08.444 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28620]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:39:08.444 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:39:18.452 PM gkbisd[28621]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:39:18.452 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28621]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:39:18.452 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:39:19.755 PM locationd[192]: Location icon should now be in state 'Active'
10/30/14 11:39:21.660 PM locationd[192]: NETWORK: requery, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, items, fQueryRetries, 0, fLastRetryTimestamp, 436430265.1
10/30/14 11:39:26.123 PM locationd[192]: Location icon should now be in state 'Inactive'
10/30/14 11:39:26.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: com.apple.metada(402) deny mach-lookup com.apple.cfnetwork.cfnetworkagent
10/30/14 11:39:26.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: com.apple.metada(402) deny mach-lookup com.apple.cfnetwork.cfnetworkagent
10/30/14 11:39:27.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: com.apple.metada(402) deny mach-lookup com.apple.cfnetwork.cfnetworkagent
10/30/14 11:39:28.459 PM gkbisd[28622]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:39:28.459 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28622]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:39:28.459 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
both searches in spotlight
10/30/14 11:41:28.558 PM gkbisd[28652]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:41:28.558 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28652]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:41:28.558 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:41:34.006 PM locationd[192]: Location icon should now be in state 'Active'
10/30/14 11:41:38.563 PM gkbisd[28653]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:41:38.564 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28653]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:41:38.564 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:41:48.573 PM gkbisd[28654]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:41:48.574 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28654]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:41:48.574 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:41:58.579 PM gkbisd[28655]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:41:58.580 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28655]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:41:58.580 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:41:58.783 PM locationd[192]: Location icon should now be in state 'Inactive'
mail typing slow
10/30/14 11:51:39.078 PM com.apple.iCloudHelper[28538]: AOSKit ERROR: Failed to get mail props (doBypassCache=0, user=********@[email protected], passwordProvided=0), accountInfoFound=0, mailDataclassInfo=
(null)
10/30/14 11:51:49.072 PM gkbisd[28719]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:51:49.072 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28719]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:51:49.072 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:51:59.081 PM gkbisd[28720]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:51:59.081 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28720]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:51:59.081 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:52:02.382 PM AppleSpell[458]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
10/30/14 11:52:02.382 PM AppleSpell[458]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
10/30/14 11:52:02.382 PM AppleSpell[458]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
10/30/14 11:52:02.382 PM AppleSpell[458]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
10/30/14 11:52:02.383 PM AppleSpell[458]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
10/30/14 11:52:09.089 PM gkbisd[28721]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:52:09.089 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28721]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:52:09.089 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/30/14 11:52:19.100 PM gkbisd[28722]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/30/14 11:52:19.100 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[28722]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/30/14 11:52:19.100 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:00:27.158 PM gkbisd[29702]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:00:27.158 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29702]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:00:27.158 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:00:37.168 PM gkbisd[29703]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:00:37.168 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29703]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:00:37.168 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:00:47.178 PM gkbisd[29704]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:00:47.178 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29704]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:00:47.178 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:00:57.185 PM gkbisd[29705]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:00:57.186 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29705]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:00:57.186 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:01:07.194 PM gkbisd[29706]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:01:07.194 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29706]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:01:07.194 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:10:07.630 PM gkbisd[29772]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:10:07.631 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29772]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:10:07.631 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:10:17.637 PM gkbisd[29773]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:10:17.637 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29773]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:10:17.637 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:10:27.645 PM gkbisd[29774]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:10:27.645 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29774]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:10:27.645 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:10:37.652 PM gkbisd[29775]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:10:37.653 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29775]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:10:37.653 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
10/31/14 9:10:47.659 PM gkbisd[29776]: sandbox_init: com.apple.gkbisd: profile not found
10/31/14 9:10:47.660 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd[29776]) Service exited with abnormal code: 71
10/31/14 9:10:47.660 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.gkbisd) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
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Spotlight and Mail

Spotlight refuses to index my inbox or any archives after installing Leopard. This was not a problem before with Tiger. I noticed several posts on this but all unanswered. Does anyone have the same problem? Any solution? My mail search is pretty much useless. Thanks!

If your mail is encrypted, you will need to check the Include Encrypted box in the Search section of Mail /Preferences/General.
You may have a file permissions problem which is causing grief, or one of the system parameters saved in PRAM may be out of whack and causing Spotlight indexing to get confused.
So Shut Down the computer and then reset PRAM. To reset PRAM, reboot while holding the 4 keys Apple-Option-P-R until you hear the SECOND startup chime, then release them. Your computer will continue to boot up normally.
Then log in and run Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. Select the line with the name of your main hard drive in the column on the left and click Repair Disk Permissions in the panel on the right. Be patient. This will take a while and the progress bar may not advance until the very end. Even if that generates notification messages, if it completes with "Permissions Repair Complete" you are good to go.
Now Restart and log in again to get things in a fresh state. Then go to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy. Drag the icon for your main hard drive from the Desktop into the privacy list (I'm assuming your mailboxes are on your main hard drive). Click Show All to exit the Spotlight pane. Go back into Spotlight / Privacy, select the line you just added for your main hard drive, and click the "-" at the bottom of the list to remove it from the list. Exit System Preferences.
Spotlight should now re-index your main hard drive from scratch. You can watch this by clicking on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar. Wait for indexing to finish.
Now see if your Mail searches work better.
EDITED TO ADD: Select About Mail from the Mail menu to confirm you are running version 3.1 and haven't, somehow, retained an older version of Mail not compatible with Leopard's Spotlight.
--Bob
Message was edited by: BobP1776

Thunderbird mailing list cuts off some addresses

I have a relatively small mailing list of 13 addressees in my address book. When used in an e-mail, only the first 7 or 10 (different attempts produced different results with same list) addressees on the list get listed in the To: - area of the sent message. I broke the list into two halves and was able to send an e-mail to all 13 people that way so it is not an e-mail provider issue.
The way Thunderbird does not show an expanded list of addressees from a list until after a message is sent makes troubleshooting the problem far more bothersome to my recipients.

H_Smith, [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Create_Mailing_List this article] contains some tips and tricks for using mailing lists with Thunderbird. Did you already have a look there? One of the add-ons might help you out.
Please let me know if that is helpful or if these don't resolve the issue.

Spotlight and Mail searches

I have just replaced my 2007 MP with a shiny new one, (garbage can someone described it to me) !
The computer is responding a bit slowly entering text into Safari fields, i.e. logging into sites, username & passwords - I type out a word and it takes seconds to appear in the box.
Also searches in Mail & Spotlight do not yield any results and judging by other posts on the subject, is probably down to Spotlight indexing the 3TB of data on the Pegasus drive.
I did not migrate any files over from my old MP as I wanted to keep a clean new drive.(I did this initially but ended up in a mess so had to erase the disk and reinstall Yosemite) I have reinstalled the majority of my apps that were on the old machine from the app store and note a significant difference in the sizes of the Libraries :
                    Old MP          New MP
Library          88gb                 6 gb
User library   33gb               11 gb
So some questions arising that hopefully someone will answer :-
Doing a spotlight search of the Pegasus drive - there is no progress bar (as noted in other posts) - there is a message that just says "Searching Promise". So presumably it is indexing the drive. Not sure how long it will take to do 3TB of data (a lot of video)
Mail - doing a search in Mail does not do anything, no dropdown etc. I presume that this is using Spotlight and once that is indexed then a Mail search should work?
Is there a way to migrate specific apps from my old MP?
I am wondering why such a big difference between the libraries on the 2 machines.
Thanks & regards

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Spotlight - Entourage - Mail.app

There seems to be a lot of problems at the moment with Spotlight.
Maybe mine is only a minor one!?
I use Entourage as my main mailing program and have it synchronized with Mail.app. My Spotlight now only finds mail from mail.app and not from Entourage. It was capable of doing that before.
Any ideas?
Greetings from Germany…….

And in the end it was sooooo easy!
ALL here: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse_thre ad/thread/af9fe26311baa3ee/050059cb37d9cf9b?q=spotlight&lnk=nl&
I really only dropped the missing files (two) into the Spotlight Folder at Library ….. for me it worked like a charm.
The missing files http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/Spotlight.zip
On 8/15/07 9:54 PM, in article  C2E90A91.D269%[email protected], "Diane Ross"
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have uploaded the files that belong in Library --> Spotlight folder for
downloading. I found that you had to use "Remove Office" then apply the
11.3.5 updater then 11.3.6 then 11.3.7. I believe that you can just drop in
the missing file into Spotlight folder and you'll get the preference in
Entourage to enable Spotlight without having to go through the entire
process of starting over.
"http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/Spotlight.zip"
If it doesn't work, then you haven't spent much effort in trying.

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