Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dr Eberhard Lisse Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 11:25:59 +0200 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <060720210724401783%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QPwtBKoxi3Jcmkue5hc22wopQ7aURnmPl10nljK+qoyAktuBsb Cancel-Lock: sha1:sB5MCoDQLULAzb+ObrULwI8o8SM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Thunderbird/1.5.0.2 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:137164 Yeah, whatever. el On 07/07/2021 16:45, Alan Baker wrote: > On 2021-07-07 2:59 a.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Your childish meta-discussion about the exegesis of posts made or not >> made is boring.  Or perhaps, your boring meta-discussion about the >> exegesis of posts made or not made is childish. >> >> >> Point is, that if one turns off Spotlight one may lose Update >> notifications. > > Nope. > > The point is that you claimed to do one thing, but then your posted article was about another. > > I guess that's why you once again snipped the information I provided that showed that. > >> >> And further point is, that if one clicks off everything but Applications >> (and perhaps also the home directory), this should conserve Updates >> while taking much less time and resources for the indexing (which is >> what bothers most most as it can slow down the machine).  The size of >> the index doesn't matter these days much any more. > > Actually, after the index is first built, the ongoing indexing takes almost no time at all. > > Another thing you clearly don't understand. > >> >> el >> >> >> On 07/07/2021 00:50, Alan Baker wrote: >>> On 2021-07-06 3:39 p.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >>>> Yada, yada, yada... >>>> >>>> quite lame actually. >>> >>> I notice you don't actually deny that I accurately described what you >>> did... >>> >>> ...and the article that you excerpted the part of the article that >>> explicitly said that the information you provided pertained solely to >>> using the option exclude certain files and folders. >> [...] >> >> > -- To email me replace 'nospam' with 'el'