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

From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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	2021-07-10 14:42 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnsejcf8.2iu1.g.kreme@m1mini.local> (permalink)
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In message <090720211925359730%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnsehkn7.2js5.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis
> <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

>> >> > My elder client loves to stuff everything in ~/Documents including 
>> >> > images, audios, and videos. I told him not to do that. He doesn't 
>> >> > listen. :(
>> >> 
>> >> He's right. There is no reason other than one's own sense of
>> >> organization, tp specialize folders. You can certainly put all your data
>> >> into a single folder if that is what works for you.
>> >> 
>> >> The main exception was, though I think no longer is, the Desktop folder
>> >> where having too many items on it would cause various annoyances and
>> >> slow-downs.
>> 
>> > that hasn't been an issue since at least as far back as tiger/10.4 or
>> > panther/10.3 (don't remember exactly when) and macs which had
>> > relatively small amounts of memory.
>> 
>> I thought I remembered someone having issues in Lion in this group, but
>> it was thousands of files on the desktop. I could be misremembering.

> thousands of files in *any* folder is going to cause problems.

Not on a modern machine/OS it doesn't. There are 37,336 files in a
single folder in my Documents folder. The only issue is that the first
time I open that folder, it takes about 10-20 seconds to load the Finder
window.

-- 
> I miss the old days. I haven't killed anyone in years.
>
That's sad.

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How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-01 20:08 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-01 20:09 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Bob Campbell <none@none.none> - 2021-07-01 23:31 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-01 23:46 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-01 21:34 -0700
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-02 09:11 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-02 00:25 -0700
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-02 11:54 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-02 16:49 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-02 14:18 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:28 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-03 08:48 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 21:29 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:27 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-03 08:49 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-02 07:37 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-02 16:22 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-02 11:12 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:33 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-02 16:48 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-02 13:14 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-03 01:43 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:40 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:39 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:28 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-03 12:59 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 21:30 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-02 08:46 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-02 16:41 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 09:50 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-03 08:51 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 21:31 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-03 12:59 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-03 21:41 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-03 17:20 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-05 00:13 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-02 06:44 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-02 08:39 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-02 17:29 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-03 09:01 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-03 15:28 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-04 03:17 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-09 02:23 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-04 03:18 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-09 02:26 -0500
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-09 13:07 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-09 09:14 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-09 22:51 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-09 19:25 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-10 14:42 +0000
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-10 14:32 -0400
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-10 18:57 +0000
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Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-09 14:55 -0500
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Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-05 00:15 +0200
Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-04 15:18 -0700
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