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Re: Spotlight anomaly

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Spotlight anomaly
Date 2016-01-17 00:20 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <dg053bFbeb4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-01-17, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-01-15 21:20, super70s wrote:
>> Spotlight is one of the most obnoxious features Apple ever came out with
>> as far as I'm concerned. I use Spotless (probably isn't even available
>> on the recent systems) to get rid of it -- both in the menu bar and in
>> the background -- and EasyFind if I need to find something.
>>
>> Who cares about "learning" what you search for the most -- is it worth
>> the HD being commandeered all the time without your
>> knowledge/permission? Not to me.
>
> It's useful to me the majority of the time.  For the rest more primitive 
> Finder searches will out what I need.  (Shouldn't say primitive, they're 
> quite powerful).
>
> "HD being commandeered all the time"?
>
> Well.  No.  It indexes and then does updates to the indexes.  Hardly 
> uses CPU or disk access time after that.
>
> You might want to consider that a) the computer is there to work for you 
> and that b) an idle computer isn't all that productive for anyone.

Some people apparently prefer to spend their time babysitting their
computer rather than letting the computer do the job of getting shit
done and moving on to the next thing. Personally, my time is much more
valuable than that. I get lots of shit done with my machines, and it
pays *very* well. : )

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JR

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Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-14 23:25 -0500
  Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-15 08:54 -0500
    Re: Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-15 12:49 -0500
      Re: Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-15 14:50 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-15 20:00 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-16 19:18 -0500
    Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-15 20:20 -0600
      Re: Spotlight anomaly JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-01-15 22:40 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 04:22 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 04:29 +0000
        Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-16 09:50 -0800
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 18:20 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 02:45 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 04:30 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 07:13 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 20:46 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 01:39 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 04:17 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 10:35 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 16:05 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-16 21:02 -0800
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 07:16 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-16 19:16 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 00:20 +0000
          Re: Spotlight anomaly dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-01-17 12:59 +1100
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Elden Fenison <usenet@moondog.org> - 2016-01-31 23:10 -0600
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-01 18:06 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2016-01-17 11:55 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-01-17 12:26 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 18:07 +0000
        Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-17 10:20 -0800
        Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-17 23:43 -0600
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 06:11 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-18 14:14 -0600
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 20:50 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-19 04:22 +0000
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 10:36 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-18 13:52 -0600
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 20:48 +0000

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