[justinkim]

I was wondering if anyone knows how to keep spotlight from indexing a drive. My poor 1Ghz TiBook is brought to its knees every day for at least an hour as the various md servers grind away on my drive.

Killing the processes in the command line doesn't seem to do anything as the processes just restart. I've tried going into the spotlight control panel and telling it not to index my drive, but it doesn't seem to like that an refuses to add either the drive or my home directory to the privacy list.

Seeing as spotlight has been basically useless for just finding files by name (it never seems to be able to find anything by name in my home directory - searching for files that I know are in my directory never seems to come up with any returns), I've fallen back on using the find command in the command line to look for files.

Can anyone help?

[fortepianissimo]

Originally Posted by justinkim

I was wondering if anyone knows how to keep spotlight from indexing a drive. My poor 1Ghz TiBook is brought to its knees every day for at least an hour as the various md servers grind away on my drive.

Killing the processes in the command line doesn't seem to do anything as the processes just restart. I've tried going into the spotlight control panel and telling it not to index my drive, but it doesn't seem to like that an refuses to add either the drive or my home directory to the privacy list.

Seeing as spotlight has been basically useless for just finding files by name (it never seems to be able to find anything by name in my home directory - searching for files that I know are in my directory never seems to come up with any returns), I've fallen back on using the find command in the command line to look for files.

Can anyone help?

In Terminal.app type

sudo mdutil -i off /

Change '/' to your volume.

[Chuckit]

It sounds like there is something wrong with your setup, since Spotlight should only index once, and it should be able to find files in your home directory.

[ZXspectrum]

TinkerTool - you can also disable spotlight completely.

[fortepianissimo]

Originally Posted by fortepianissimo

In Terminal.app type

sudo mdutil -i off /

Change '/' to your volume.

If you want to remove the Spotlight index, after the step above, do this

sudo mdutil -E /

[Randman]

If you remove spotlight, you won't be able to use search in other apps, such as mail. Chuck's correct, Spotlight should just index things once and be done with it.

[PurpleGiant]

Something is definitely wrong, I have used Tiger on a 1Ghz Tibook, and Spotlight caused no slowdowns at all, after the initial indexing.