Removing these indices is especially tedious since Spotlight will not find hidden files whose names begin with a period (.) and index files created under Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier have file names beginning with.However, Spotlight does not remove content indices created under previous versions of Mac OS X, which can consume considerable space on the hard drive. SearchKit was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 for content indexing and Find By Content. Spotlight employs Search Kit for content indexing and finding files by their content.Under Mac OS X 10.5 and later, Spotlight is available in Safe Mode. Under Mac OS X 10.4, Spotlight is disabled in Safe Mode., the mdworker process is also active during indexing. The mdimportprocess is also active during indexing. If you open Activity Monitor, the process mdsis active when Spotlight is either indexing or searching.Spotlight-V100 directory at the root level of a volume it has indexed. Spotlight saves all its index-related files in the.
These are indexed and can be searched under Mac OS X 10.5 and later. Under Mac OS X 10.4, System-related files or folders.
Furthermore, Spotlight will neither index nor search:.By default, Spotlight indexes and searches a limited number of folders, specifically those listed in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document "Mac OS X 10.4: Where does Spotlight search?".By volume we mean either a hard drive with a single partition, or a specific partition on a hard drive with multiple partitions. Spotlight will begin indexing any volume as soon as it is mounted, with certain exceptions: CDs, DVDs, disk images, and shared network volumes are not indexed when mounted.Spotlight was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 and significantly improved in later versions of Mac OS X.Preventing Spotlight from indexing backup volumes.Ī comprehensive treatment of Spotlight, including extensive troubleshooting information, can be found in the "Spotlight" chapters of our Troubleshooting Mac OS Xe-books.Disabling Spotlight indexing while indexing is in progress.Is there anything else I need to do, or is this alright?Īnd if this is all the right thing to have done, does anyone have any idea how long it will take for the index to rebuild, and for Spotlight to again regain usefulness? This is a vital function.This FAQ, derived from information in the "Spotlight" chapters of our book Troubleshooting Mac OS X, addresses the following topics related to Spotlight® in Mac OS X: I now have Macintosh HD and Spotless enabled, and Easy Find is read only. Spotless is unable to manage indexes on CD or DVD media." If you are able to do so, please unlock the volume and try again. On trying to enable it, it has now told me: "It is unable to write the index to the volume EasyFind because it is read only. I opened Easy Find, to see if it was enabled, and it was not. In Spotless my Macintosh HD was enabled, but the Volume Name for Spotless was not, and when I tried enabling this it came up with some sort of warning, but either way the indexing status in Spotless of both the Macintosh HD and Spotless is Enabled Mac HD is 4.4MB index size, Spotless is 4.0KB. After a couple of attempts to search for things (which is still fruitless), it is now 4.4mB. I’ve run Spotless over and over as it seems to have helped a few different people, but most recently after I ran it, the index size was still only 824kB. Make it hard to know whether I’m clicking on the right buttons. Scott Roberts wonderfully brief instructions regarding Spotless –ĭisable indexing, Delete all your indexes, and enable indexing. My question regarding Spotlight is this – it has the options for “disable indexing” or “disable spotlight indexing” and “delete index files” and delete entire index directory”. EasyFindcan only manage the same thing, and Path Finder – well it looks pretty fancy, but unless I am searching within the right subfolder, I can’t get it to find anything. I’ve tried Maintenance as well, and this and Spotless came up with the same result – can search for file names but not terms or words/phrases within files. The problem is that my Spotlight is seemingly kind of working again, but it can now only search for files/folder names, it can’t search for terms within the bulk of a file, deeming the function practically useless. I have tried searching the various help links, and have now tried Spotless, Maintenance 3.6, EasyFind and Path Finder. I have similarly been having problems with Spotlight, again probably only since updating with 10.4.8.
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