If you can arrange for the ignored work to be in a directory with
a .noindex suffix, Spotlight will ignore all files placed there.
But it sounds like you are already ignoring the entire directory and
rather want to ignore specific files.
If you can arrange for the scratch files to have a suffix
of .noindex, they will be ignored.
Other than those ideas, there is currently no simple way to index
some, but not all, files in a directory.
Good luck.
---- Andy
On Jul 11, 2009, at 4:32 AM, DJamé Seddah wrote:
Dear list users,
Does anyone know how to prevent spotlight to index large text file
produced on very regular basis ?
Some NLP tools I'm using (like parsers and taggers) produce very
large text data file (.mrg and .parsed) and spotlight keeps
indexing them and it seems to be a very heavy task for spotlight.
So far, I've configured it to not index some directories but it's
not very convenient in the long term (I'd like to still be able to
search through some other data (like logs, readme, etc...) inside
those directories.
sorry if this has been asked before but I can't find any references
to that (some related
questions have been asked in the apple support mailing around 2006
but none usefull answers)
Thanks for any tips,
Djamé
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