Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?

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Subject	Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?
Date	Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:13:50 +0200
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Aha.

Another wannabe.

el


On 2021-07-03 23:20 , nospam wrote:
> In article <ikbsqmFil63U1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
> <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
> 
>> Aha.
>>
>> Besides that I did not say either was a good idea, or easy to maintain,
>> both do the job.  The former isn't even my own idea, comes from the
>> TextMate Support Group, but you of course can easily find the scopenames
>> of all installed TextMate2 bundles with Spotlight.
> 
> it doesn't do the job, nor can it. it's fundamentally broken, along
> with being slow and inefficient at what little it does do.
> 
> the real problem is you have *no* clue as to why that is.
> 
>> And you can easily find in Spotlight the CPAM modules used in all Perl
>> scripts other then the ones in Library Downloads and the CPAN modules
>> itself, of course.
>>
>> It takes no effort whatsoever to maintain, in particular since there is
>> no need to maintain.
> 
> it takes quite a bit of effort, by your own admission:
>>>> I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
>>>> oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
>>>> for large scale file shifting.
> 
> 
>>
>> But then why am I explaining myself to children when I could rather
>> troll them?
> 
> what were you saying about not insulting?
> 
> In article <ikbs6oFig77U3@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
> <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
>> On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
>>> In article <ikaht1FahfgU4@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
>>> <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
>>>> And don't insult.
>>>
>>> if you're going to ask others to not insult, it's a good idea to not do
>>> so yourself.
>>>
>> Agreed. This is why I don't do it.
> 
> top posting fixed.
> 
> not only do you continue to insult, but your trolling skills suck and
> you are a liar.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
>>> In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
>>> <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I find files like so:
>>>>
>>>>       find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
>>>>         -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
>>>>         -exec bash -c '
>>>>           tput bold;
>>>>           echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
>>>>           tput sgr0;
>>>>           echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
>>>>                then
>>>>                   for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
>>>>                   do
>>>>                    if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
>>>>                    then
>>>>                      /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
>>>>                         "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
>>>>                         2>/dev/null \
>>>>                      | grep -v "[\{\}]";
>>>>                    fi;
>>>>                   done;
>>>>                fi)' \; \
>>>>         | sort -f
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
>>>>         -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
>>>>         -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
>>>>         -name '*.pl' \
>>>>         -type f \
>>>>         -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
>>>>       |awk '{print $2}' \
>>>>       |sed 's/;//g' \
>>>>       |sort -u \
>>>>       |grep -v \
>>>>         -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
>>>>         -e ^and \
>>>>         -e ^Apache \
>>>>         -e ^base  \
>>>>         -e ^bytes  \
>>>>         -e ^constant  \
>>>>         -e ^experimental \
>>>>         -e ^feature  \
>>>>         -e ^fields \
>>>>         -e ^hasn  \
>>>>         -e ^lib  \
>>>>         -e ^open  \
>>>>         -e ^routines. \
>>>>         -e ^strict \
>>>>         -e ^subs \
>>>>         -e ^sysread  \
>>>>         -e ^use \
>>>>         -e ^vars  \
>>>>         -e ^version \
>>>>         -e ^warnings \
>>>>         -e ^when
>>>>
>>>> for example.
>>>
>>> looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.
>>>
>>> even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.
>>>
>>> you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
>>> when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script
>>> kiddie would laugh at.
>>>
>>>> I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
>>>> oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
>>>> for large scale file shifting.
>>>
>>> what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
>>> *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and
>>> fundamentally broken.
>>>
>>> the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way
>>> around.
>>>
>>>> I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
>>>> either.
>>>
>>> you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting
>>> your ability to effectively search.
>>>

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