hem Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Well for those who have got Dual booting working with Vista/XP and OS X . they must have hard drives formatted to NTFS . I have vista and OS X dual boot enabled. While in Leopard i cant search for thing which are in NTFS partitions i have 3-4 NTFS formatted drives . Any hack on how to have Leopard Spotlight enable indexing NTFS ( FAT32 as well ) partitions. I use Vista search very often . i tend to do similar in Leopard from spotlight but The search is not complet . spotlight searches good only in Leopard Installed Drive ( HFS ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
-CEOS- Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 osx write a spotlight index file on each medium that can be used with spotlight. but OSX can´t write on ntfs, so there is no index file = no spotlight search Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-849528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hem Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 I use Paragon's NTFS for mac which makes NTFS partitions writable in Mac. And what about FAT32 partitions .. Can even serach in FAT32 partitions of mine from spotlight ( it searches some recetly visited files/foders in FAT32 but the search is not as detail as it is with the Leopard Partition ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-850028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-CEOS- Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 that´s strange. maybe reinstall will help. or try the latest Hard Drive Kext´s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-850602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hem Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Have u been able to get the Spotlight index your NTFS and FAT32 partitions with paragon's NTFS for mac installed... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-850694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionhead Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 If you hae read and write acces just type: sudo mdutil -i on /Volume/the Name of the Volume ...in my case it was sudo mdutil -i on /Volume/Media Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-852021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minh Phuc Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 If you hae read and write acces just type: sudo mdutil -i on /Volume/the Name of the Volume ...in my case it was sudo mdutil -i on /Volume/Media I applied sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Vista, and did on another NTFS Volumes, but Spotlight ran very slow after that. The harddisk led indicator appeared continously. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119776-spotlight-not-indexing-ntfs-partitions/#findComment-922049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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