Tiger Spotlight Less Then Optimal

Anonymous Coward writes "Spotlight turns out to be a major pain for many users because it can't be turned off and insists on indexing volumes each time they are mounted. Additionally, Spotlight doesn't come with a manual to teach you how to create complex queries. Most simple available queries --style popup menu selection-- are not powerful enough to be really useful. A tutorial on http://www.scribent.com/ will explain how you can optimize Spotlight's behaviour and get the most of it, but all in all it seems like Apple has been overhyping in the extremes."

Comments

Re:Definitely not great here

[MrPerfekt]

I have three 300GB FW800 drives running at RAID 5 via software and I never ever have had a problem. I rarely see the drives access unless I actually use them.

Granted, a disable feature seems like a no-brainer. I have no idea why Apple is forcing people to use Spotlight. That's kinda shady if you like ze porn and want to show someone something and accidentally end up exposing that you watched "All Anal Babes 4.mpg".

Er, Uh, not like that's ever happened to me.

Re:Sounds like an opportunity...

[argent]

Call it "floodlight"?

Re:Definitely not great here

[Stuart Gibson]

Yes, my pr0n is only accessible in a PGP Disk file with a 45 character password and using an old beta copy of PGP that means you need to set the PC clock back by three years to avoid the "Trial period has expired" message. The key is also only held on a USB drive. The disk file is also in a hidden folder called "__temp" within my Photoshop testing folder and is named "scratchdisk".

Of course, now everyone on /. knows where to find my pr0n...

Stuart