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10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Authored by: sjonke on Jun 09, '05 04:25:14PM

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.

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10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Authored by: tvalleau on Jun 18, '05 01:05:20PM

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...

It's how much data you are trying to ask spotlight to access that is causing the slow-down.



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