On Feb 23, 12:12 pm, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 8:43 AM -0800 2/23/2009, Gary D. wrote:
> >I open the Privacy tab and drag the volumes into the window -nothing > >happens. I click on the + and select the volumes - nothing happens. > >If I drag the normal volumes into the window, everything works as > >advertised. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a corruption of > >some kind? > > The spotlight system prefs are mostly broken. Besides - it doesn't > stop the indexing, it just suppresses some of the search results. > Generally, a waste of time. > > Instead, disable the indexing using mdutil - the direct interface to > Spotlight. > > From your admin account, issue these commands in Terminal: SNIP Dan: This addresses my concern also. There really should be some utility that can help consumer users with this issue, and also the issue of corrupted indexes for which you and Bruce so often repeat the three terminal commands in these lists. This could become an added feature of OnyX and Cocktail. In the meantime, I hope these two commands can survive future OS updates. But I guess they would be lost in any Archive and Install or Erase and Install for upgrades. Hmmm, Dan. Perhaps you could write up a new utility and make a few shareware bucks. Call it "Spot-L Control"? Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
