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# Spotlight Support

Sandvox includes support for Apple's Spotlight technology. The attributes supported by Spotlight for Sandvox documents are:

- Site Title
- Site Tagline
- Site Author
- The number of pages in the site
- The title of every page
- The textual content of every page
- Core Data Model - occasionally used by us for troubleshooting purposes

These attributes are used when searching for documents, and some of them also appear in the Get Info panel of Sandvox documents.

## Troubleshooting

If you find that Spotlight is not working properly for Sandvox documents, it is generally because Spotlight has become "confused" by there being more than one copy of Sandvox on your computer at some point.

You first need to verify the issue.

To see if Spotlight knows how to handle Sandvox documents:

1. Open the Terminal application (located in the "Applications → Utilities" folder).
2. Type the command:

       mdimport -L

3. Press Return. The Terminal will display a list of results.
4. If the word "Sandvox" doesn't appear anywhere in the results, then Spotlight has indeed "forgotten" how to search Sandvox documents.

To resolve the issue you can try:

- Deleting any additional copies of Sandvox on your computer. Don't forget to look in the Trash as well!
- Moving Sandvox to a different folder and then back again.
- Reinstalling Sandvox.

If you are still having issues with Spotlight and Sandvox, please visit our support forum to try and resolve them.

## Related Articles

- Document
- The Spotlight database is corrupted

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