I have been suffering from mainly Mail.app unable to search full-text of my emails for a couple of months. I also recently noticed that Spotlight is not searching my PDFs in my user directory. But it can find other files. I tried to fix the Mail full-text search problem numerous times, but it did not work, such as by simply reset Spotlight indexes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today I finally fixed it by following instructions here<\/a>. Basically, you have to boot into recovery mode and open terminal, type in “resetpassword”, select your main user, and instead of changing password, select reset ACL at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After reboot that did not immediately solve my problem. So I deleted “com.apple.spotlight*” and “com.apple.systemuiserver” from ~\/Library\/Preferences. Also, I tried some other commands from Terminal, which I tried before, such as See detailed discussion here.<\/a> Note that “on\/off” above means that you turn off and then turn back on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway finally it solved my problem. I think it is a combination of a few causes. My user folder permission was definitely kind of broken. But now I am so used to Sparrow Lite email client, I am not sure whether I want to go back to Mail.app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been suffering from mainly Mail.app unable to search full-text of my emails for a couple of months. I also recently noticed that Spotlight is not searching my PDFs in my user directory. But it can find other files. I tried to fix the Mail full-text search problem numerous times, but it did not… Continue reading Finally fixed my OS X Lion Spotlight and Mail full-text search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[241,244,260,242,243],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--apple","tag-lion","tag-mail-app","tag-obsolete","tag-os-x","tag-spotlight","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}hdutil -E -i off\/on ~\/<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n