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Anyone know a way to index your HD, automatically, without having to do it manually every now and then? thanks!
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In 10.3, the only way I can think of is to applescript/shell script it, and I don't know if you can do that.
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Curious:
Am I the fist one to think of this????
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Originally posted by kevs:
Curious:
Am I the fist one to think of this????
Since Spotlight in 10.4 will do this, I'd say not  BeOS did it years ago. I don't think too many people have wondered about auto-indexing using the exisiting OSX indexing service, since I haven't met too many people who actually find it useful.
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Nest version of OS will do this?
How can you not find it useful?
You search for something, and if that something is a recent file, and was not indexed recently it wont show up.
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Originally posted by kevs:
Nest version of OS will do this?
How can you not find it useful?
You search for something, and if that something is a recent file, and was not indexed recently it wont show up.
Actually, I've never found that to be the case. AFAIK indexing just lets you do find by content. In 10.4 it will autoindex all the time and also use the index to search much much faster (as well as more info).
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The indexing pre-Tiger blows. You wouldn't want it to be constantly checking, since it's so slow.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally posted by Thinine:
The indexing pre-Tiger blows. You wouldn't want it to be constantly checking, since it's so slow.
I indexed my main drive last night and it took a long time and ate a lot of CPU cycles.. fans spun up and all... anyway... the advantage was my search was a lot quicker for stuff on my drive, but I agree Tiger is going to make this even better. I can't wait for Tiger!
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Originally posted by kevs:
Anyone know a way to index your HD, automatically, without having to do it manually every now and then? thanks!
What specifically do you mean by "index your HD?" For what purpose?
The locate database is rebuilt on a weekly basis, if the machine is on when the weekly cron job runs (sometime in the middle of the night). Use 'locate <filename>' to find all files with <filename> in the name.
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Originally posted by CatOne:
What specifically do you mean by "index your HD?" For what purpose?
The locate database is rebuilt on a weekly basis, if the machine is on when the weekly cron job runs (sometime in the middle of the night). Use 'locate <filename>' to find all files with <filename> in the name.
select the Macintosh HD icon, then go to File -> Get Info -> Content Index: (Index now)
It take a lot of CPU power and lot of time to run, so its not part of the Cron commands.
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iMac 17" Core Duo 1GB RAM, & 2 iPhones 8GB, and a Nano in a pear tree!
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