spotlight is so spotty... is there any other search utils out there? that are cheap/free and actually work? All I want to do is search file names.
We have a Lacie big5 netwrk disk with 100's of thousands of files on it. for a while search worked, it took some time(fine by me at least it worked!) but a few weeks later it no longer worked, now it just instantly says 0 results and no none of those sudo commands make it work again. -sam > > On Feb 23, 12:12 pm, Dan <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
