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

[Matthew Wheeler]

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It's probably more correct to say Spotlight is always updating the 
index. It generally doesn't have to completely re-index. OTOH, 
occasionally (more new troubleshooting steps) one needs to delete the 
current index and allow a rebuild if it is not working properly. 
Overall impressions seem to be positive, so I'm not trying to drag it 
down.

Index speed will probably be dependent upon the amount of index-able 
files (12 GB's of video files won't take long to index, whereas 3 GB's 
of Word or Quark docs will), speed of HDD and CPU.

Matthew

On May 10, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> 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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It's probably more correct to say Spotlight is always
<italic>updating</italic> the index. It generally doesn't have to
completely re-index. OTOH, occasionally (more new troubleshooting
steps) one needs to delete the current index and allow a rebuild if it
is not working properly. Overall impressions seem to be positive, so
I'm not trying to drag it down.


Index speed will probably be dependent upon the amount of index-able
files (12 GB's of video files won't take long to index, whereas 3 GB's
of Word or Quark docs will), speed of HDD and CPU.


Matthew


On May 10, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:


<excerpt><excerpt>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.

</excerpt>

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

-- 

Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Civil Rights, Discrimination &
Employment Law, <<http://www.HerringLaw.com>;  Travel research and
planning, <<http://www.JourneyZing.com>;  Des Moines, Iowa,
515-255-4475.

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