[DM-MUG] Spotlight (was Re: Tiger tonite...)

[Bryan Baker]

Here's an article that just hit O'Reilly's MacDev Center:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/24/spotlight.html?page=3D1

Has a good amount of spotlight tidbits.

On May 25, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Well... one at a time...
>>
>> Q1: You are talking about setting the nice level. I'll look up=20
>> something about how to do this, and write back in a bit.
>>
>> Q2: Yes. After the initial indexing, spotlight is hooked in with the=20=

>> file system calls, so things are added and subtracted whenever files=20=

>> are added or deleted.
>>
>> Q3: Not sure about this either at the moment. There is a little=20
>> freeware app that you might find useful called
>> "DisableTigerFeatures" that can be
>> found on MacUpdate.com. This will let you turn off dashboard and/or=20=

>> spotlight.
>>
>> - =DFailey
>
> Thanks Bailey, that helps alot [esp. No. 2]
>
> and you reminded me there is a software program ($9 shareware) called=20=

> Renicer 1.2.9 that does the priority changing...it'd be nice if there=20=

> were a freeware program, of course....
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