Snow Leopard and Spotlight

Well I've made the move and upgraded to Snow Leopard I mean only $10 cause a recently bought MBP. One of the things I noticed right away was that my Spotlight search was all jacked up. And by jacked up I mean it would not find applications, wouldn't even try. So like any other techie guy, rather than going the simple route... well I didn't. I went and deleted all my ".Spotlight-V100" under "/" root directory. Forced Spotlight to re-index in like 30 different ways.. and nothing. Took me about 2 hours to realize, hey let me just go into "System preferences" and uncheck and check the Applications option to index. After that, all seem to magically work.

Now I'm a big quicksilver user, and there's plenty of links out there already about that and Snow Leopard. But I like to have Spotlight as a nice back up. So if you are having problems with Spotlight and your Applications under Snow Leopard, then Check and Uncheck the Applications box under Spotlight System Preferences.