Re: Spotlight Indexing
Re: Spotlight Indexing
- Subject: Re: Spotlight Indexing
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:42:39 -0700
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:45:27 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg
<email@hidden>
wrote:
> At 08:24 +0200 UTC, on 2009-08-26, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:
>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:59 AM, David Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>> I think turning indexing off erases the index; that is,
>>>
>>> mdutil -i off /path/to/volume has the same effect as
>>>
>>> mdutil -E /path/to/volume,
>>>
>>> except that the latter leaves indexing enabled.
>>
>> You must be right, but that is not what I observed. Turning spotlight
>> off would not trash the index (that was on OSX Server).
Absolutely - turning off indexing via "-i off" does not delete the index,
or it would be a huge pain for people who just need to temporarily disable
indexing, which is why there's an explicit "-E" flag which deletes the
index but leavines indexing in the current state (if it's on, it'll
immediately begin to rebuild the index from scratch; if it's off, it'll
just delete).
As for Spotlight being broken and with a nearly useless UI, I can't agree,
though I've never tried to use it to index the contents of disk images. In
more common uses it's nearly magical and very useful.
-R
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