[DM-MUG] Figuring out what is going on in background in Tiger...

[Victoria L. Herring]

>One comment is that Spotlight is always indexing the drive.  When 
>you are writing something, downloading something, changing and 
>image, it will be indexing. I expect that it does wait until the 
>file is written to disk. My understanding is that the System folder 
>is not indexed. Using Spotlight to find Automator turned up a lot of 
>things but not the Automator folder in System > Library.
>
>On my initial install the 12 Gs I have on the HD were indexed within 
>a couple of minutes.

That explains why I hear those little bips....I suppose I could 
deselect things to index, but I really like that feature.
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