Known Issues

Frequent crashes


If you are experiencing frequent crashes, lock-ups or odd behavior within HoudahSpot you may have a corrupted Spotlight index. You should rebuild it:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to the Spotlight pane
3. Select the Privacy tab
4. Click the Add button
5. Select your boot drive (typically called "Macintosh HD") an click the Choose button
6. Select the boot drive from the list in the Spotlight Privacy pane
7. Click the remove button
8. Spotlight will re-index the hard drive. This will take some time
9. Repeat for other affected drives