Ssd indexing and mail search

I've mavericks on ssd and I disabled (as interner suggest) indexing on my ssd... but now in mail I cannot use the search function! how can I restore that? do I need to reenable indexing on the drive?

SSD is just a tool for your machine to work faster, smoother, cozier.
Use it. Even if there is a longevity issue, you do keep backups and will get a new SSD when it's needed.
Enjoy the speed while you have it.

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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.
Is there a singular hidden "index" or metadata file on the Mac under Lion where this information is stored, can I get at it so I can trash it, and if I do, will the computer automatically rebuild a new index file (if such a singular file even exists)?
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.
Thanks for any help that anyone might be able to provide. I know I ask a lot of questions, but I don't want to go through the lengthy cloning of my hard drive and then doing a "clean" install and then be saddled with the same problem again.

Hi Linc,
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com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
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com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
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com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0
Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
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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
3/15/12 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
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mds
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mds
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mds
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mds
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mds
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mds
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mds
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mds
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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 :
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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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Mail and mail search horrible since 'upgrade' to 7.5.2

no idea what cat i'm dealing with. went from 7.2.x (might have been 11, can't remember) to 7.5.2. this whole feline thing is beyond me , like going to starbucks and being supposed to order a vente. i get large.
getting used to the new offerings on search (which i imagine they think are better, i'm dubious). the problem is, while they help you narrow in they circumscribe your choices.
if you are looking for ralph waldo emerson but might have emails with and without his middle name it doesn't just allow you to populate the 'from' search with "emerson". it insists on offering you a specific person, and if the mail program has not identified these multiple personalities as one entity then you have to search each individually.
ditto for the subject search. it offers you very specific subjects but suppose i just want to find a word in the subject and not a specific subject title?
although generally it offers you the less helpful option to choose entire message which, many of my searches aren't even offering that option anymore. maybe that is because it doesn't see those words in any email but i know they are there. it often skips over emails that i know have the required word in them or in the subjec. This is just driving me crazy.
may be some kind of an indexing problem but i have no idea how it indexes or searches.
i tried the rebuild command and that slightly improved results but did not fix the fact that it ignores some emails that have the search indecie in them. and itt simultaneously threw away my last three weeks of emails. they are still out there on my providers server, but i can't get it to repropagate into the email program. when i check mail it just gets new mail but not the mail sitting there that it does not have. maybe it put it somewhere and still has it, or maybe it informed my email provider that it had already downloaded the email to this computer so it won't do it again even though there is no version of that email currently in my inbox.
and i'm not sure what else it did. i used to have 89000 emails in the count showing next to my inbox in the left column (although i'm never clear if that number was the total or the unread) and now I have 49000 although i don't notice any other date range or obvious category of missing emails, who knows.
I used to think that mail kicked *** for keeping track of and finding emails in this large archive. i'm always looking back to things i ordered 3 years ago to order them again, etc. it has just been abyssmal since the upgrade. i have occasionally pushed my onboard memory because this is an Air with 64MB storage. I'm using 64 GB low profile cruzer "fit" usb memory for all my documents and i have plenty of space on there but no idea if i could move the target email folder off the internal HD and tell mail how to find it. This would help prevent my occasional low memory issues.
in any event, never had these troubles when i was running 7.2 . Didn't even know it would 'upgrade' ???? Mail when I got the later version because some program said it would not run with 7.2. Mail is only the half of what i hate about 7.5. But it is today's problem so i'll try to keep my bellyaching on one topic.
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Dear members:
Please forgive me if my question is rather basic but I haven't been able to find the exact answers I am looking for in order to address my project needs.
I have a folder where I keep all of my PDF files. These are all articles from medical journals that I keep organized using a browser application specific for these types of articles. The application allows me to search these articles but it only looks for specific keywords (title, author name, date, journal name and keyword just to name a few). However, it doesn't look at the content of the PDF file to find words that are contained in the body of the article itself.
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1. Can't be done at this time.
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I have noticed every since I installed the intel 10.4.8 combo update I have been unable to search my mail in Mail.
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When I use the top right hand spotlight icon it works fine.
Does anyone know how to fix the search in Mail?
Thanks in advance.

I mean the search box in Mail itself and when
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Actually, if you pay closer attention to what David has told you, you will see the banner he mentions provides for searching all mailboxes or the currently selected one, not just the Inbox, & for searching on the entire message; or the from, to, or subject fields alone.
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