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10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Spotlight is annoyingly slow, to the point where I don't want to use it. I type one letter and get the spinning beach ball for 30 seconds! Totally unacceptable. You'd think someone at Apple would have realized that most people don't want to do a system wide search for the letter Q! Like a previous poster mentioned, all they had to do is have a one second delay to wait until the user stops typing. I hope this will be fixed in the next update. This is a major problem for the #1 feature of the new OS.
10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Even on my lowly iMac G3 400 MHz, the delays associated with spotlight are no where even in the remote vicinity of 30 seconds. It stutters a bit, but I don't get a spinning beach ball at all. Either you are running OS X somehow on a 68040 mac :) or I think something is seriously fouled up and it's probably Spotlight's index. You might try dragging your hard drive into Spotlight's Privacy settings - that will delete the index for it. Wait a few seconds to make sure it finishes removing it. Then remove your hard drive from the Privacy list, and then wait quite a while for the index to be rebuilt. I suspect that will solve that problem. Note that Spotlight will be painfully slow if you try to use it while this complete re-indexing is going on, so wait for it to finish.
10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Or (as the original poster of this tip) it may be that some of us (like me) have 135 Gigabytes of data, spread across just under 1,000,000 files...
10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
as posted earlier, Quciksilver fixes the whole problem. If you adjust a few QS settings, then you get a process like this:
10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
And the same goes for Preview as well. I hate to search in PDFs width Preview. I often get the spinning beach ball of death for more than 30 seconds. This "feature" is ridiculous! It is a bug, not a feature. |
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