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Spotlight: Leap isn't showing files that I know are there.

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    There are several ways this could happen. If you do a search in Leap for say, images, and then look in a folder that as 12 images and a PDF, the PDF will not show up, as you have done a search for images, and a PDF is not an image. To see all the files in a folder, select 'Files and Folders' from the orange source menu, and then pick the folder you want to see.

    Another thing that can happen on occasion is that you do a search for, say PDF files, and you look in a folder where you know there is a PDF, and it does not show up. A common cause of this is that your Spotlight database needs rebuilding. Also see this discussion: rebuilding Spotlight.
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 11th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />I have rebuild Spotlight but I am not able to see the files anyway. This concern a external harddrive. To see all the files in a folder is ok, but to see the files on the drive at once is not possibly.
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 11th 2009
     
    1. What operating system are your running - Tiger or Leopard?

    2. What kind of search are you attempting? Spotlight contents?

    3. What version of which program are you running??
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 11th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />1/ Mac OSX 10.5.6
    2/ Spotlight contents
    3/ Leap 1.1.0 Universal

    i can see the folders but there are light gray... I f I select Files and Folders I am able to search each folder. This happends only with one of my external harddrives.
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 12th 2009
     
    It may be that you haven't indexed the drive. Files and Folders will show files but when you use a Spotlight search (or the searchField) and search contents you shouldn't find anything.

    Follow the steps in part one of this discussion and see if that helps: Some Hints about how Yep and Leap work.

    Jim
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 12th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />I have rebuild Spotlight twice.... but how to rebuild just a external drive?
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 12th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />I followed the steps in part one and have to wait while I also rebuild the index... It was no problem before with another drive. When I changed and moved the files from 320GB to 500GB it started.
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />It did not help... but when I deleted the Spotlight index file on the external drive the MAC started to rebuild the index once again, and now it seems to be perfect!
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2009
     
    Great! Let us know if it goes wrong again - otherwise we'll add that as a potential fix for people with similar problems.

    PS: I encourage to take a second and formally register with us. There's no spam and it's a nice way anyone could say "Hey, So-and-So has a post! Wonder what it is?" instead of not knowing who "Guest" is. 8^)
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />Yep not showing files I know are there. I checked to make sure Yep is looking in the right place for pdf's (check). I checked to make sure the files/folders were not in Spotlight's privacy folder (check). I rebuilt the Spotlight database and let it fully reindex. But still Yep isn't seeing any of my files and I cannot find files thru Spotlight that I KNOW are there. Any ideas?

    Running OS X 10.5.6, Yep. 1.8.0
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2009
     
    Where are your files located? If Spotlight and Yep can't find them it sounds like you may not have permissions to see them.
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />They are located in a folder called Dropbox (I am using dropbox from getdropbox.com). It worked for a month or two just fine, then one day I opened Yep and the docs weren't found. I didn't do anything manually to change permissions, etc. Any suggestions?
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2009
     
    Did you update to 10.5.6 (or 10.5.5? Or a Combo update?) within that time period?
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />Good question. I don't remember exactly when I last did a system update. My software update would've automatically done it, so it would've happened about when they first released 10.5.6.... I think that was well before when this problem occurred, but I can't be sure.
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2009 edited
     
    Is your Account type "Admin" or "Standard"?
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />Admin.
    • CommentAuthorvenanzio
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2009
     
    I have tried all the tricks here and Leap will not find the files. It does find them if I go deep and spotlight does find them. what to do.
    tia
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2009
     
    venanzio:
    Could you take a screencap of a Leap search your trying to do an email it to: Ironic Support ?

    Thanks,
    Jim
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />Just updated to 2.0.4 and yep does not find anything, I recreated index, pointed to folder still nothing.

    Spotlight has no problems finding the files

    SL 10.65.2
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2009
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />I am having a similar problem:
    * I have set YEP! to manage ~/Documents/Bookshelf which is where I keep various documentation, reference materials, ebooks etc.
    * Searching this location for PDFs with spotlight returns 266 items
    * YEP! returns 0 files for &quot;All types&quot; in &quot;Anywhere&quot;
    * I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540) and my account is an admin account
    * I have rebuilt my spotlight index
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2010
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />I can't find a way for Leap 2.5.3 to find or show images on 'shared' location. Leap 1.1.1 has no trouble searching and locating images on network drives but 2.5 doesn't see them at all. What's changed? Is it possible to use Leap 2.5.3 to look for images on shared drives? it always says '0' files although there are thousands of images there.
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2010
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of posters for whom Yep cannot find any PDF files on my internal hard drive. Spotlight finds them OK, and when I manually drag a PDF file to Yep, it shows up. However, I obviously want Yep to find these files automatically so I don't have to scour my hard drive and add them manually. Does it matter that I am running in demo mode? (I was just about to buy Yep on a recommendation from a friend, and then I figured before I plunk down my money, I should see if the thing works - and right now I would say that I am not planning to purchase Yep unless I can see a resolution to this issue).
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      CommentAuthorBLUEFROG
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2010
     
    See this discussion… Ironic Apps, Spotlight, and Yep 2
    • CommentAuthorguest
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2010
     
    <strong>Guest:</strong><br /><br />hi there - so Leap is behaving weirdly for me, and its related to this thread. fyi I just registered so I could start a new thread but I have to wait for admin to review my application.. so I'll post here for now.
    my problem is that Leap on one machine is acting very differently to leap on another machine.

    on my laptop Leap is great - I select a folder and get everything in that folder (and subfolders), the file type behaviour is as advertised etc - all good

    on an iMac (2.4 Ghz intel duo, same OS 10.5.8) I get completely different (and really slow) behaviour:
    If I select a folder in the folder pane, I get the &quot;No documents found.&quot; message - even if I know there's stuff there
    but if I deselect all folders in the folder pane, I get to see everything in the root of the folder pane (and subsequent children)

    I have rebuilt the spotlight index
    Yes, I'm using Dropbox
    I an using under an admin account on both machines, and am on the latest Leap on both machines. I'm trying to move across to the iMac but this app behaviour is really making it hard. I was soo used to Leap being a quick and sprightly app that did what I wanted, now it's behaving very strangely indeed.

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