[OS X TeX] Spotlight doesn't index TeX distro

David Goldschmidt dmgoldschmidt at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 08:08:48 EST 2006


On 12/4/06, Tobias Sebastian Kuhn <tosebk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 04.12.2006 um 12:59 schrieb David Goldschmidt:
>
> > I've noticed that Spotlight doesn't seem to be
> > indexing /usr/local/teTeX...
>
> type in Terminal.app
>
> mdfind -f /usr/local/teTeX
>
> regards
>
> T.
>
> ps: a gui app for this is SpotlightIndexer

This generated several hundred lines of output on the terminal, but
it didn't affect Spotlight at all.  However, it put me on the
right track:

sudo mdimport -f /usr/local/teTeX

did the trick.
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