Unable to index /opt or /usr/local/cellar and symlinks w/ Spotlight

[luzpaz]

OSX 10.8.5
brew 0.9.5
Can't invoke apps in caskroom (as well as brew cellar) because they are not being indexed by Spotlight. This also means Spotlight is not honoring symlinks in /Applications or ~/Applications

FYI,

• I am signed in as Admin.
• Did not find a way to tell Spotlight to add directories to index.
• The suspected issue is that this is a permissions thing. I understand (from AmnesiousFunes on freenode channel homebrew-cask) that this is not an issue on Mavericks

EDIT: added more information

[rolandwalker]

Hi!

Spotlight is finicky, so this is an ongoing issue. See #188 or (more recently) #2847 .

Spotlight definitely does not index symlinks, though we would like to find a way to convince it to do so. But it should index the applications in /opt/...

Most of us do not run as administrator. However, logging in as administrator, I cannot duplicate the issue (Spotlight does find my applications under /opt/...).

Therefore I suggest that you try these commands

$ mdutil -i on /
$ mdutil -E /

which will have the effect of forcing Spotlight on for the root volume, and then erasing (and rebuilding) the index.

Finally, you should check "Spotlight" in the System Preferences app to make sure no categories are disabled.

[luzpaz]

Thanks for this reply. 👍

BTW...no categories were disabled.