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spotlight can do damage...
Authored by: prohtex on Oct 11, '05 03:10:09AM

in addition to making your computer unbearably slow at random and sometimes crucal times, spotlight will also start indexing a failing drive RIGHT after boot, possibly destroying data before you have a chance to run recovery utils. some say it won't index a failing drive but i learned this the hard way (it probably just uses the "S.M.A.R.T." check) for HD failure you should ALWAYS boot into single user mode off an external disk and modify your /etc/fstab so the disk doesn't mount and try to be read/written to.

however should you forget about this (it happens) and you boot a system with a rattling HD that you might want to recover data from, there is nothing worse than a background provess that starts rapidly reading and writing to the drive -- particularly if the process slows the system to a crawl.

should you choose to turn spotlight off to save your data and your sanity (another good time for spotlight to do its thing is when you are outputting 10gig client aftereffects comp late for deadline and OOPS "Spotlight" thinks your computer is idle) you are left with no fulltext search in mail, and no file search on your disk. that's a terrible mistake.

this, along with the crippling problems in automator (feels like an alpha - 30 secs to collapse a tab?) and the "handy" 10.4 warning dialogues that come up when renaming file extensions or downloading apps in safari (both of which CANNOT BE TURNED OFF) makes me feel like apple is not being attentive to their customers, the pro users and mac-heads who get others to adopt.

like windows, it now seems apple would rather force "features" on us rather than designing a new & elegant solution. for shame.



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spotlight can do damage...
Authored by: maddys_daddy on Oct 11, '05 11:25:05AM
10.4 warning dialogues that come up when ... downloading apps in safari (both of which CANNOT BE TURNED OFF)
Only a small item on your (legitimate) gripe list, but this particular one can be turned off by Saft. Well worth the small price.

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spotlight can do damage...
Authored by: raider on Oct 11, '05 11:47:45AM
I know this is going to sound petty, but here goes.

Apple (and other readers) might take your comments, suggestions, and complaints a bit more seriously if you would use better capitilization, punctuation, spelling and sentence structure.

Otherwise you just sound like a raving lunatic and people discount your comments without even trying to understand what they are saying.

Like people who have "save the environment" bumper stickers on a car that is spewing blue smoke and leaking fluids.

:)

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