Re: .Spotlight-V100 file
Re: .Spotlight-V100 file
- Subject: Re: .Spotlight-V100 file
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:55:16 -0500
On May 9, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Lorenzo wrote:
Hi,
when I backup a whole volume (non boot), should I copy this file?
/Volumes/Pocket Drive 78 GB/.Spotlight-V100
I noted that the normal user has not the permission to read it.
So, should I skip that file or do I create some problem if I skip it?
And, if I have to skip it, should I skip all the files starting with
.Spotlight
placed on the root of the disk? Or should I skip only this fixed
filename
.Spotlight-V100
?
I think you're better off *not* backing this up. The system will make
a new one automatically, and you'd have to overwrite the one the
system had there by copying this over. And what if it becomes out of
date? Also, does anyone really know what format it uses to store the
references to the files? Does it use paths or file IDs? If the
latter, they'll all be different on the new drive, and you may
overwrite your index with another index which is worthless.
In short: backing up the Spotlight index makes about as much sense as
backing up the Desktop file on OS 9. The system recreates it
automatically, so why worry about it?
Charles
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