Snow Leopard Server and Spotlight

[mrbubzie]

Hey everyone just purchased a license to snow leopard server from apple and I have installed it on a 2010 Mac mini….weird question though spotlight is not indexing at all on the Mac mini so when you go to search in spotlight nothing comes up and same when you search in finder….I have added the root of my hard drive under privacy in the spotlight preference pane and removed it about a minute later to try to get it to rebuild and reindex but it does nothing….restarts dont fix it and verified in terminal processes for spotlight are allready active so my question is does apple disable spotlight on the host server and only give access to the client machines….now I went through hell and high water to install this as my Mac mini came with 10.6.4 and server dvd is only 10.6.3 so I installed server in a virtual machine(vmware fusion) I then updated the server vm to 10.6.8 and downloaded carbon copy cloner and created a blank image file using disk utility to clone the virtual drive to the dmg image created with disk utility so it could be dragged to the desktop of the actual host machine mounted and restore to an external drive to boot the Mac Mini carbon copy from the external hard drive to the main system hard drive…everything worked and booted fine and everything installs and is peachy but spotlight and indexing…also tried verify disk under first aid in disk utility and also repaired disk permissions everything passed. So I’m at a loss here any server peeps out there might be able to throw me in the right direction! Thanks!!’

 

[eyoungren]

I would guess that Spotlight works the same on Server and Client.

You could try downloading Onyx for Snow Leopard, scroll down to 2.4.0. Use Onyx to delete the Spotlight Index, then disable it then re-enable it and see if that works. If it does, it should re-index your drive.

If you aren't stuck on Spotlight I'd suggest two alternatives: Quicksilver as an app launcher and EasyFind for searching.

 

[aurora72]

I do have a Mac mini server (late 2009) and it comes with a snow leopard server OS out of the box and I currently use it on my Mac mini server. However, I disabled the Finder / Spotlight indexing on it like I do on all the Macs I use. I remember disabling it by editing the com.apple.metadata.mds.plist file at the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons folder, by using the info I had found at How to Completely Disable Spotlight. You might wanna check those files.