YIKES is right. No wonder I couldn't search my mail archives!
Well I just rebooted and in about a day or so, my spotlight will be
working again. Didn't realize how much I would miss it.
Anyway, back to that same problem again.
On May 10, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Art Isbell wrote:
> On May 10, 2008, at 2:46 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
>
>> I didn't. Then after deleting that and then .Spotlight-V100 and
>> then .Trashes/
>
> Yikes! The Mac OS X kernel may be confused because you've deleted
> the directories in which it maintains records of all file system I/O
> (/.fseventsd) and file system search indices (/.Spotlight-V100). I
> don't know what would break or behave unexpectedly with these
> directories gone, but it might be wise to reboot.
>
> These are "hidden" files readable, writable, and executable only by
> root for a good reason: regular users aren't supposed to muck with
> them.
>
> Aloha,
> Art
>
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