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

From	Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?
Date	2021-07-03 21:31 +0200
Message-ID	<ikbs80Fig77U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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I am so impressed by the wannabe plonkers.

el

On 2021-07-03 14:51 , Wolffan wrote:
> On 2021 Jul 03, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote
> (in article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>):
> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
>> either.
>>
>> el
> 
> going to a lot of trouble writing scripts vs just using the built in search
> feature... decisions, decisions.
> 
> giving a damn about a troll’s opinions... hmm, nope.
> 
> Say bye, Ebie. You’re about to be plonked.
>>
>>
>> On 2021-07-02 14:46 , Wolffan wrote:
>>> On 2021 Jul 01, Bob Campbell wrote
>>> (in article<G9OdnRZ_ovU-FUP9nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@supernews.com>):
>>>
>>>> On 7/1/21 9:08 PM, Ant wrote:
>>>>> It seems I have to do it monthly
>>>>> (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) since it is not finding all
>>>>> matched Office documents in Documents folder. This never happened in
>>>>> older versions like Mojave v10.14. :(
>>>>
>>>> Never. I have never used search ever, on Mac or on Windows. In over
>>>> 30 years of using computers - at home and at work - I have never needed
>>>> to search for anything.
>>>
>>> Interesting. I have a 2 TB HDD and a 1 TB SSD internally on this machine,
>>> and
>>> have access to over 40 TB of storage, by USB, in a NAS, and in network
>>> connections to other computers, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Finding files in
>>> all
>>> that would be non-trivial without using search. So... how _do_ you find
>>> files? How much storage is on your machine(s)? How much time do you spend
>>> moving around files and folders? What is your objection to using search?
> 
>

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