Spotlight issues

[Scott Anguish]

On Aug 27, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Jim Witte wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>> The finder could not find the exact file names, even after I found  
>> the
>
> > mdimport -f /"System Folder" is the syntax used to force spotlight  
> to reindex specific directories :)
>
>   Shouldn't this be standard when an Apple app (or better yet, the  
> filesystem itself) creates a file?  Or is it, but mdimport still has  
> some sort of queue it has to go through before it gets to a file you  
> just created seconds before?

	typically it should automatically handle it.

	but not all directories are indexed by default.