Leopard Server and Spotlight Problems

Posted to Mac, by curmi on the April 19th, 2008

When we first installed Leopard Server, we found that Spotlight wasn’t working on the server by default. A number of people have also found this to be true, and some people have suggested it may have something to do with installing on to a RAID 1 drive setup (as we did).

The following is a possibly solution to get Spotlight working if you are having this issue1.

  1. Login in to your server as an administrator.
  2. Open the Terminal application (in your /Applications/Utilities folder)
  3. Type the following exactly as written in to the Terminal:

    sudo rm /.metadata_never_index

    It will ask you for your password. You may get a “file not found” error, as the file has only been reported as being there for some users. Regardless, move to step 4.

  4. Type the following in to the Terminal:

    sudo mdutil -i on /

Spotlight in the right corner of the menu of your server login should indicate it is indexing, and before long will start working.


1. This post is based on a discussion in Apple Discussions, and fixed the problem we had been having with our server.

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8 Responses to “Leopard Server and Spotlight Problems”

Thanks, it solved my index problem.

Comment by xserveg5 — August 27, 2008 @ 6:10 pm

This fixed my problem too. I also created a Raid 1 array on my xserve and installed the OS onto that.

Comment by Nathan — November 21, 2008 @ 5:10 am

Wow, worked immediately. When I posted in the forums no one knew what to do.

Comment by Sec — February 14, 2009 @ 5:56 am

THANK YOU!! Spotlight did not work on a single HD Leopard installation either. It is fixed now.

Comment by Indiecn — June 18, 2009 @ 3:58 am

Many thanks – solved this most annoying problem

Comment by edmin — November 24, 2009 @ 10:32 pm

Thanks – fixed this problem on two of our Leopard servers.

Comment by Lyn — January 17, 2010 @ 4:08 am

I’m guessing Apple disabled some Spotlight indexing on Leopard Server for a reason — performance hit? Anyone care to comment?

Comment by rexray — August 1, 2010 @ 1:59 am

Thanks a bunch!! This helped me as well with Leopard Server 10.5.8 installed on two mirrored (Raid 1) internal harddisks!
Spotlight is indexing again.

Comment by Erwin — June 17, 2011 @ 10:08 pm

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