Solutions Log » Apple OSX http://solutions.unixsherpa.com by Dan Reiland Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Clear Spotlight Index http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/09/30/clear-spotlight-index/ http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/09/30/clear-spotlight-index/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:34:07 +0000 Dan http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/?p=194 From a terminal window:

sudo mdutil -avE

That is, sudo (because you have to have admin rights to run this), mdutil (the program that does the work for you) -a for “work on all volumes”, -v for “be verbose in telling me what you’re doing”, and -E for “erase the data store and rebuild it”.

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dscacheutil -flushcache

OS X <= 10.4
sudo lookupd -flushcache

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