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Spotless is a simple utility designed to disable and enable Spotlight's auto indexing with the click of a button.
The hostconfig file is read during the boot process to determine which services will be running once the computer has finished booting. Spotless changes the SPOTLIGHT entry in the hostconfig file from -YES- to -NO- or from -NO- to -YES-. A restart will be required to apply the change.
Please note that Spotlight searching will not be available until Spotlight indexing is enabled. This includes the "find" functionality of the Finder. The purpose of this
The hostconfig file is read during the boot process to determine which services will be running once the computer has finished booting. Spotless changes the SPOTLIGHT entry in the hostconfig file from -YES- to -NO- or from -NO- to -YES-. A restart will be required to apply the change.
Please note that Spotlight searching will not be available until Spotlight indexing is enabled. This includes the "find" functionality of the Finder. The purpose of this
What's New
Version 3.0:
- Adds better support for user's home directory paths that contain spaces when using background processing.
- Fixes a bug that prevented Spotless working normally if it was setup as a hidden login item and fixes a bug that prevented the background processing LaunchDaemon file from being removed when background processing was disabled.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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Spotless is a simple utility designed to disable and enable Spotlight's auto indexing with the click of a button.
The hostconfig file is read during the boot process to determine which services will be running once the computer has finished booting. Spotless changes the SPOTLIGHT entry in the hostconfig file from -YES- to -NO- or from -NO- to -YES-. A restart will be required to apply the change.
Please note that Spotlight searching will not be available until Spotlight indexing is enabled. This includes the "find" functionality of the Finder. The purpose of this tool is to disable Spolight indexing for a limited time while functions that Spotlight interferes with are performed - such as creating bootable backups, or performance issues related to new Mac OS X installations / upgrades.
The hostconfig file is read during the boot process to determine which services will be running once the computer has finished booting. Spotless changes the SPOTLIGHT entry in the hostconfig file from -YES- to -NO- or from -NO- to -YES-. A restart will be required to apply the change.
Please note that Spotlight searching will not be available until Spotlight indexing is enabled. This includes the "find" functionality of the Finder. The purpose of this tool is to disable Spolight indexing for a limited time while functions that Spotlight interferes with are performed - such as creating bootable backups, or performance issues related to new Mac OS X installations / upgrades.
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ivanzoid reviewed on 19 Jan 2012
Janus Madsen reviewed on 13 Mar 2011
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Ronl reviewed on 02 Mar 2009
Very useful.
Definitely worth the price.
I've been using it for around two years now with no problems.
For anyone that thinks that OSX's 'Privacy' setting is any ways near comparable... it's not.
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$20 seems pretty steep for an app that just gives a shortcut to a preexisting System Preferences feature.
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F451 reviewed on 27 Jan 2008
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zxpt reviewed on 09 Sep 2007
I have a MBP with an external FW800 drive that I prefer to boot off of (read/write speeds are about twice as fast), so I mirror the internal and external drive before shutdown.
When I boot off the internal drive, I don't want Spotlight to search the external (since it is a mirror), and when I boot off the external drive, I don't want Spotlight to search the internal.
Spotless makes it easier for me to turn on/off Spotlight for each drive, but it would be amazing if I could set it to automatically select which drive to enable Spotlight on, depending on the name of the boot drive.
If you know of another way to do this, please let me know.
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I just don't see the real need for a mini-app to accomplish this. To me it just seems to be another $8 spent to add some more overhead that could potentially conflict or interfere with something. It might be conceivable faster and slightly easier to do with this app but in reality, just how often are you going to be changing the settings?
If it offers some distinct advantage, go for it, but I just don't see it. I would prefer to just keep it simple and just avail myself of the tools that Apple has already given us to do this.
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As for my self, based on the description, I would not buy it at any price or use it even if it was given away as Apple's built-in controls are completely adequate for my needs.
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Hope this app is Lion-ready soon...
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Any help here???
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Henrique Azevedo rated on 03 May 2011