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10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: ProfGumby on Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 8:50PM PST

what was the -f option for mdimport intended to do??

when trying it it says it's obsoleted and does nothing.
man mdimport says the -f switch is obsolete in leopard and beyond, and not finding anything on the 'net about it;
just wondered if I should/could use a different option instead but don't know what it was for;
thanks;

10.5: Force Spotlight to index old Mail messages
Authored by: pediger on Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 9:49PM PST

From the 10.4.11 man page:

-f Force mdimport to scan the files, bypassing path filtering rules.

I'm afraid I'll have to leave it to someone else to explain exactly what it does. (Ignore Privacy exclusions???)