[bergy]

I just got a new hard drive. I copied all my old files over, and now I'm looking for a file through "find" and not having any luck . I was wondering if i had to index the new drive first.
Do I just click on the hard drive .. get info and index, or is there another way of doing it ... like only indexing the user folders ...

Thanks for any info ...

[MPMoriarty]

If I am correct, you shouldn't have to index the hard drive if your searching for content that is found in a file's name.

BUT...

If you want the search looking at the actual content of your files and producing results, then you have to index.

I think that's right, but I could be wrong.

Mike

[Art Vandelay]

That is correct. Indexing is only used for searching the contents of files, not the files themselves. Furthermore, OS X is always indexing your drive. There is no option like there was in OS 9.

[Moonray]

To turn the content indexing off deselect all indexing languages in the Finder preferences.

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[Boondoggle]

Originally posted by Art Vandelay:
...Furthermore, OS X is always indexing your drive. There is no option like there was in OS 9.

None of my volumes or folders are indexed, and I've got languages selected in the Finder prefs.