Software :: How To Disable Spotlight

Dec 20, 2010

i recently read that disabling Spot will make a minor boost to game performance. my question is: how do i disable it?

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OS X :: Disable Spotlight On Certain Removable Drive

Nov 1, 2010

I notice every time I plug in a removable USB hard drive, spotlight will start to index files within the drive and result in my drive to take time to be recognized and become usable. Is there any option within the snowleopard that would allow me to disable certain removable drive?

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OS X :: Won't Work With Disable Indexing / But Still Able To Use Spotlight

Feb 8, 2010

So in Windows, if you were to disable Windows Indexing for search (but leave search on), you'll still be able to search for files, just at a extremely slower rate because theres no index available. Having an SSD, this is faster and I like that feature but in OSX, I can't figure out if there's anything to disable indexing but still have spotlight be able to find/search for files.

It's not being done out of paranoia or such, but for some reason, MDS always goes off whenever the system is started, any minor file is changed and such, it's actually being a huge drain on system resources. The MDS runs for about 10 minutes each time, taking up 30-70% cpu usually and i really want to disable it but still have spotlight searching available.

Can this be done? or is something that only windows' would have?

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Mac Pro :: Cannot Disable Spotlight - Endlessly Indexing?

Feb 14, 2012

I cannot disable spotlight - it is endlessly indexing. I have dropped the main drive into Provacy under Spotlight.  I have dropped my other 3 drives there as well.  I have taken them out and reurned them many times - no change.  I repaired disk permissions many times - no change.  I downloaded and installed the 10.6.8 Combo update - no change.  It keeps indexing and says: Indexing _____________'s Mac Pro. And the estimated time is not there - just that barber pole.  And I believe it is affecting my applications - I am having major problems with Avid's Pro Tools 9.0.6. Is there anything else that I can try?  I do own Spotless but I stopped using it over a year ago - it didn't seem to do anything more than what I could do using the Privacy option.  It it possible that Spotless might be able to do something that I cannot? 

Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 16 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

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OS X :: CPU Hog By The MDS Spotlight (mds) ?

Sep 27, 2010

This is old news maybe by couple of months BUT still. I've just experienced this on my Core i7... Fast CPU still hog by the dam MDS spotlight process due to Firefox "Profile" folder.

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OS X :: How To Do Something Using Spotlight

Dec 12, 2009

I am trying to figure out how to do something using Spotlight and am not having any luck. Can you give me a hand? I would like to search my hard disks for all files that end in a certain file type (example: .jpg), and show the total size of them. If I type in jpg in Spotlight, it shows all the files. At the bottom, I can see where it says "more than 10,000 found" However, if I want to look at the file size of a single file, I have to right click it, and select Get Info. If I select View, Show View Options, Size is grayed out to where I cannot select it. So I cant sort the files by the largest files. How can I do all of this in Spotlight? I saw a few apps (Houdahspot, PathFinder) that seem to fit the bill, but I would prefer to do this natively in OSX, or at least find a free app. I shudder to think of spending $30-$40 just to sort files.

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OS X :: Spotlight Not Working

Jun 8, 2007

It's not finding anything, not even files on the desktop. It's not indexing the drive. It's doing sweet eff-all, it's doing squat. I've restarted. Twice. MBP 17" C2D, 10.4.9 Spotlight is crucial to me for searching emails and PDFs.

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OS X :: Spotlight Keeps Freezing In 10.5.6?

Dec 16, 2008

I installed 10.5.6 yesterday, and now Spotlight keeps freezing / crashing (just Spotlight, everything else is fine). I can't see if it's related to 10.5.6 or not (I'm not techie enough).

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OS X :: Spotlight Won't Reindex

Jan 12, 2009

I tried to re index my spotlight index, and after doing so, it will not index any files unless I manually re open them.

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OS X :: Spotlight Has No Index?

Mar 16, 2009

I have gone to the "Private" tab under Spotlight preferences and dragged in my hard drive. The green "plus" sign lights up, but once I let go nothing ever gets added to the list. I've tried it with everything and nothing gets added.

I've gone to Terminal and typed "sudo mdutil -E /" plus my password. It returns: "Error, no index found for volume."

I've tried "sudo open /.Spotlight-V100" and it says the folder cannot be opened because I do not have sufficient access privileges. Does anyone know where to find this folder on my hard drive so I can get to it manually? I am hoping it might ask for my password once I'm there. As the administrator, does anyone know how to make the OS know that I do have sufficient privileges?

The things I have not done are use disk repair because I do not have a boot disk. I have not reinstalled because the OS came on my computer and I have no disks. I would think re-installing would do the trick, but there has to be something else going on that can be tweeked, wouldn't you think?

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OS X :: Spotlight To Dropbox In SL?

Aug 22, 2009

I installed SL 10a432. Transferred a lot of files to the share/dropbox. In swedish this is called:
~/Delad/Brevl�demapp/ which in English would translate to "~/Shared/Mailbox folder/" or something similar, it not related to emails, just the literal translation....

what should I write in spotlight to reach this folder? i have tried loads of combination but I cannot find this folder in spotlight but I can find the items in it...

if I write "dela" as in "Delad" it suggest "delat" like it would suggest share insted of shared when it in fact was called shared....

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OS X :: Set Spotlight - Only Applications Come Up

Sep 14, 2009

I have my spotlight set so only applications come up... but when I search for any program all these .jar files come up as applications. They are not applications and filed in the wrong folder. How do I make it so they do not show up? I've tried hiding my entire harddrive except for the App folder to show up but that means not being able to search anything.

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OS X :: Does IMacs Come With Spotlight?

Mar 7, 2010

Does the iMacs come with spotlight. I saw the mentioning of it and wanted to see if I have it... looks like I don't. I just bought my iMac last month.

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OS X :: Using Spotlight - Mds Hangs?

Jul 19, 2010

Not sure whats changed, but now when I plug in my external drives. Spotlight (mds) spins for a good while then eventually hangs. I can't figure out what the problem is.

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OS X :: Won't Work With Spotlight And Indexing SL

Nov 9, 2009

I have a MBP and I recently did a clean install up to Snow Leopard, and then added all of my movies and files about 150GBs onto my mac. And it was all working perfectly, but now for the past two days I have not been able to use Spotlight as it says it is indexing.

Any ideas why or how this might of happened? I have recently brought iDeFrag and did a quick online DeFrag after I installed windows 7 in boot camp.

I use spotlight alot for finding files and not having it is.

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OS X :: Unable To Use Spotlight On Any Accounts In SL

Oct 25, 2010

I've been having issues with spotlight index in SL 10.6.4. The issue is that I'm not able to use spotlight on any accounts. they are all admins and still same results when trying to search from anywhere (finder, top right corner of mac, or applications). now this install comes from an image use by the company I work for and it has been deployed on many macs successfully.

I've already tried rebuilding spotlight database by
System Preferences---Spotlight----Privacy---Adding Macintosh HD/deleting (also tried re booting in between the process)
Terminal---sudo mdutil -E /
Terminal----sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Already performed Disk Repair in Leopard and Single User Mode.

The last thing I would want to do is backup the users data and re install the OS but before I do I would like to something else.

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OS X :: Unable To Tell If Spotlight Is Indexing

Oct 27, 2007

How can I tell if it is still indexing and how long does it take ona clean and jerk install that wipes the HD ? I was experiencing VERY choppy genie efects and dock animations for about 2 hours after the install of Leopard.... oddly seems to come and go WTF


MBP BRAND NEW 2.2

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OS X :: How To Reindex Spotlight In Leopard

Nov 5, 2007

How can I force my Leopard to reindex my drives? My External drives seem to be indexed, but not my Internal Drive.

I checked spotlight preferances, and its not set up to be that way. I tried doing it the tiger way and that didnt work... is there like a command I can run in the terminal or something?

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OS X :: Spotlight Cannot Find Some Folders

Oct 8, 2008

I went to search for "ColorSync" in Spotlight but it wasn't able to pull up the folder. It exists though @ Macintosh HD > Users > Chris > Library > ColorSync

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OS X :: Cannot Locate Any File When Use Spotlight

Nov 9, 2008

Am I alone in having difficulties with this application? I cannot seem to locate any file when I use it. I type in part of the file name and rarely find what I want. If I try to use some part of a document's text, it is just the same. I am also finding difficulties in compressing files but have put this on another thread to avoid confusion I am using Tiger 10.5.5

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OS X :: Prevent Spotlight Searching DVD?

Dec 14, 2008

Is there any Terminal commands that will do this? I use Spotlight all the time - to load documents to loading applications. However, I hate how it makes any DVD's in my drive spin up. I never search DVD's, so turning this off wouldn't be an issue.

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OS X :: How Can I Get The Dictionary Within Spotlight To Work

Dec 25, 2008

How can I get the dictionary within Spotlight to work

I remember this feature when i first got Leopard but hasn't worked since then, how can I get it to do so?

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OS X :: Spotlight Shortcut Won't Work?

Feb 14, 2009

'm new here and quite new to mac as well.

Until now I've used the shortcut for spotlight (ctrl-spacebar) a lot. But suddenly it doesn't function any more. When I go to the preferences and hint the spotlight-icon, nothing happens. If I click it again, it opens, but with the shortcut selections in the bottom erased.

I have a Intel Leopard 10.5.6 MacBook.

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OS X :: Strange Icons In Spotlight?

Mar 17, 2009

Does anybody know what happened to my icons in Spotlight? This recently started occurring and seems to pop out every once in a while for arbitrary searches (restart fixes it temporarily).

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OS X :: Odd Spotlight Search Results

May 12, 2009

I'm searching for a file in Finder. When I select "Preferences", which is the directory I'm in, it finds the file but when I select "This Mac" it doesn't.

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OS X :: Whole UI Slows Down When Click On Spotlight

May 19, 2009

It seems whenever I click on spotlight, my whole UI slows down. Most noticeable in dock. Maximize/minimize becomes choppy, dock magnification becomes jumpy. Only a restart fixes this. Anyone have a fix or experiencing the same thing?

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OS X :: Spotlight Not Working Properly

Aug 14, 2009

My dictionary is synced to my spotlight, so when I type in a word, it defines it. But now it doesn't. It also loads only a few icons of the files I'm searching. I have MacBook. (2008)

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OS X :: Cannot Find Terminal In Spotlight

Aug 15, 2009

I've looked at what others have done to find it, and I cannot find my terminal. I've used it before and now it's just gone....

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OS X :: How To Use Snow Leopard And Spotlight

Aug 21, 2009

If I had to pick one thing that is a fundamental feature of the OS, not just Mac OS but any OS, it's the ability to find files - and that functionality is all but completely broken in Leopard. Spotlight in Leopard absolutely sucks. It doesn't find files, it's slow, and there are few options for how to sort found files.

I can't count the number of times that I have tried using it to quickly locate a file, but it can't find it, even thought it's right there on my hard drive. I manually navigate to the file, and yep, I spelled it right...there it is. But it just doesn't appear in the Spotlight results list.

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OS X :: Won't Use Quicklook / For Work In Spotlight

Aug 25, 2009

Is there any way to use Quicklook from within Spotlight search results? I'd like to be able to do a Spotlight search and hit the space bar for a quick Quicklook look before actually launching the program.

I'm guessing this isn't possible, since hitting the space bar only inserts a space in the Spotlight search box, but thought I'd ask.

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