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Cannot search through All Messages on Mac

By Arjun Chopra - Jun. 07, 2008

A strange thing happened - I used to be able to search through all messages on mail.app, and now, that option is no longer available. I had recently uninstalled QuickSilver. Could this have messed up my indexing? What do I need to do?


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  1. By Karl Hand on Jun. 08, 2008

    Quicksilver is probably a red herring. Did you tinker with any of your spotlight preferences? It is possible your index got corrupt.


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  2. By Arjun Chopra on Jun. 09, 2008

    You are right - I think the index got corrupt. I removed mail from the Spotlight preferences and then added it again and - voila! It rebuilt the index and I can now search through "Entire Message"!


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  3. By an anonymous user on Jul. 22, 2008

    do yourself a favor and get google desktop search


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