On 1/21/06 3:44 AM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/20/06, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An update on 'spooky' Rev incident.
SOLVED -- Rev is definitely NOT the culprit
My working version of a stack that had script-only changes is, indeed,
correctly saved to my hard drive.
The culprit is SPOTLIGHT, which is a Mac OSX feature new with
Tiger versions
(10.4+). Here is why the insidious nature of Spotlight bit me.
Thanks for sharing the solution with us, Jim. It's good to know Rev
isn't suddenly eating scripts :-)
Sarah
As our country's Ben Franklin once wrote:
"Experience teaches a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
For those not familiar with English, this means that fools only learn by
making costly mistakes. Since I have learned this way, I am passing it on
:-)
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
Coincidentally, just this morning I found a wayward file I thought I
had lost, or maybe never made in the first place. If I had not found
it, I would have suffered some serious harm. When I finally found it,
it seemed to be MIA because of... Spotlight! It was right where it
belonged, all along, and in no mysterious place, either. It was in my
documents folder, at the top level of the folder. Permissions were
set correctly and repaired, and I even ran diskwarrior. Upgrading to
10.4.4. didn't help, either. The file in question was not the only
file in my documents folder that Spotlight was overlooking.
I logged onto an apple support forum, dedicated to discussion of
Spotlight. Many dissatisfied and perplexed users are complaining
there about Spotlight-blindness. It's often speculated that
Spotlight's database can get corrupted. Ironically, DiskWarrior might
corrupt it.
There's a shareware utility called Spotless that rebuilds Spotlight's
database, I think, also, optionally, turns off find-by-content, which
can fill up small or crowded hard disks and slow down slow machines.
Even better, there's a freeware app called EasyFind. It works pretty
much the way command-F worked Macintosh OS before Spotlight came
along -- but better. It's generally praised on the aforementioned
peer support site. I tried it this morning. It looks good to me.
Cheers,
Tim
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