Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal When I turned search off, mail stopped searching. Spotless is shareware, so if you don't want to pay, you can create the files listed yourself. Just might try it out, but do need to know if Mail, or anything else, relies on it for searching. For instance, Spotless places the files on the drives so the indexing will be disabled on all machines were you use the flashdrive on.Īnd I don't really understand anything below the screenshot you posted, but I guess it would start to make sense if I installed Spotless. The advantage of spotless is that you can use the tools to turn off indexing on a partition basis like a flashdrive. I'm very aware of Spotlight's shortcomings and very rarely use it for searching-use EasyFind-but for the time being, it's really not getting in the way. I've known about it for a while, and while I'm tempted to try it out, I use Mail.app which I think relies on Spotlight for searching-but not sure about that. Robert, thanks for the information on Spotless. If I really, really want to find some data in a file, I use the terminal find command. If I am searching on a file name, I use easyfind. I have spotlight indexing turned on so that I can search for data in a file. This is accomplished by issuing the following two commands in Terminal in the order specified: *Anomalies from stopping indexing using Privacy under Tiger*Ĥ.The only way to remove all the index-related files after stopping indexing via Privacy is to use mdutil to both disable indexing on the volume and erase the index files. My other question would be, since I dragged Spotlight into Privacy prior to making this new clone, would simply dragging it out of Privacy (when booted from the cloned volume) therefore, allowing it to rebuild the index there completely, take care of this problem directory? I would consider doing this when I am ready to start using the clone.Īnd, I don't know if the following from that X Lab article now applies to my specific situation and would prevent me from using the simple index rebuild I described above. But I'm not sure exactly which commands, if any, from that article I would use. It would require using Terminal commands, which may appear in the following X Lab article on Spotlight. Spotlight-V100 is a directory, not a file, and, as such, can not be deleted directly. My original plan was simply to use the 'Destroy' function in EasyFind, but I have since learned that the. It was recommended that I delete the /.Spotlight-V100 file on the clone, which is likely corrupted or incompatible with the spotlight index on the internal volume. Localhost mds208: crash data for /.Spotlight-V100 in volume /Volumes/Hard Drive/.Spotlight-V100?!? I no longer see the crash log entry when booted from the clone, but the matter of this problematic 'file' remains.

I solved the problem of the crash log entry, at least for now, by making a new clone, and moving the cloned volume prior to cloning into Spotlight/ Privacy.

I'm in way over my head on this one and need some fairly simple directions, if possible. I did not see that log entry when booted from the internal and found no problems there with Spotlight. As discussed in another thread, I noted a log entry for a Spotlight crash on the internal drive which I saw only when booted from the external, cloned drive.

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