Why doesn't Spotlight find Applications on OS X Server?

Posted by Clinton Blackmore on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Clinton Blackmore
Published on 2010-05-21T16:07:08Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 16:11 UTC
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On our Mac OS X Server 10.5.x boxes, using spotlight (ie. the magnifying glass in the top corner) does not find applications and utilities, but it does on Mac OS X client (and so, we all use the keyboard shortcut and end up frustrated -- it either gives us nothing, or, without us realizing it until later, an application from another partition.)

It isn't clear to me if we've done something strange setting up our servers, but they are all like this. Any idea what caused it and how we fix it? Everything (including Applications) are set to show up in a spotlight search in System Preferences).

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