DMORGAN  both attempts to download the 2.05 version have failed. Neither here at MacUpdate or directly from the Spotless site worked. Both disk images were 'damaged' and unopenable. ???

Any help here???  
(Version 2.0.5)

RONL  Thanks for keeping this app updated!

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.  
(Version 2.0.3)

XENOPHILE  How is this better than simply going to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and adding HD's, Volumes, or folders to the Do Not Index list?

$20 seems pretty steep for an app that just gives a shortcut to a preexisting System Preferences feature.  
(Version 2.0)

F451  I have many drives, and Spotless is the best means of handling volume indexing that I have come across. Since its beginning I have licensed Spotless, and I find the upgrade fee to be more than fair considering how much use and time you receive from each version of Spotless. The Developer is very receptive. I am anxious for Printer Setup Repair to be released for Leopard; another must-have utility by the same Developer.  
(Version 2.0)

JASON EMANUELSON  Too expensive for a unitasker utility. Besides, that, the author has more than doubled the price in less than a year. At this rate, it is going to cost the price of an OS in a couple years. I shy away from authors that do this, as do most companies and corporations. It puts them in a bad spot when it becomes a standard install and the price gets to be more than the value.   
(Version 2.0)

ZXPT  Essential utility for any spotlight user. Very elegant design provides detailed control of any attached volume. Over time indexes simply flatten out and become inefficient, Spotless enables me to keep Spotlight at maximum performance and only applicable where needed. I just rebuild my main drive once again and the index directory size shrunk from 275 to 128MB.  
(Version 1.2.5)

KALVINK  This is what I want to use it for:

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.  
(Version 1.2.4)

JIMW  If you want to do this, why not just add to the 'Private' list in Spotlight Preferences each device you do not want to be indexed?

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.   
(Version 1.2.3)

NEUTRALZONE  Yeah, I disable Spotlight for my backup drives. It's annoying to watch Spotlight try to index an entire backup and slow down the machine when I don't want it to give me results from those drives. I actually use Spotlight to set the default to not index any drives except my boot and archive drives.  
(Version 1.2.3)

KONG  The most important part was missing in my previous review down the page:

PS: I figured out a solution to turn Spotlight back on (you need to have system administrator's rights to do this): locate "hostconfig" and "hostconfig.spotless.backup"-files (in .private/etc-folder). Copy the latter one e.g. to the desktop and rename it to "hostconfig". Remove the "hostconfig" from it's original location and replace it with the just renamed one from your desktop. Restart and Spotlight will work again!  
(Version 1.0.3)