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Where does spotlight store it's Data
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romeosc
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May 8, 2005, 01:39 PM
 
I keep a CLONED backup and since Carbon Cloner is unavailable.. I wanted to copy the Spotlight database as well as other changed items.
     
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May 8, 2005, 01:45 PM
 
I would advise against doing that. The Spotlight information is automatically managed by the system. Don't mess with that.
     
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May 8, 2005, 01:52 PM
 
Indeed. It would be like backing up the Desktop file in OS 9. Why? The system creates this automatically.

But if you have to know where it is, it's here:

/.Spotlight-V100

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May 8, 2005, 08:32 PM
 
Thanks, The reason is I keep an external 20GB firewire for emergency and backup. If I boot from it, some files are not indexed!
     
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May 8, 2005, 08:55 PM
 
It doesn't take all that long for it to reindex.

You'll be okay without moving that index file.
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May 8, 2005, 09:13 PM
 
Anyway it's the /.Spotlight-V100 directory.
But I agree with the others, don't bother.
     
   
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