 | Aug 31 2009 |
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???
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 | Aug 31 2009 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Confirmed: the Spotless 2.0.5 .dmg does not mount, at least not for you and me. Only the developer can fix the issue.
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 | Aug 31 2009 |
ESEMKA You might also want to try CloneEject (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25639) , it servers the same purpose - enabling or disabling spotlight on a given volume.
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 | Mar 2 2009 |
RONL Thanks for keeping this app updated! 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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| Apr 28 2008 |
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) | |
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| Jan 19 2009 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS System Preference's Privacy pane doesn't always work, where Spotless does. Also, Spotless gives you more options.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Mar 22 2009 |
DONMONTALVO If Spotlight is "broken", why not report it to Apple so they can fix it? Rather than spending money on a hack? https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/wa/signIn | |
| Apr 27 2009 |
FONTCUBERTA Good advice but, speaking as someone who's mentioned this problem (Spotlight not remembering when you tell it not to index a drive) since Spotlight's introduction, I can attest they don't always fix things right off. They fix a lot, sure, but not all of it. Spotless fills that gap.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
| Apr 27 2009 |
DONMONTALVO Good point, maybe it's best to do both. Buy Spotless, as well as submit a bug report. I wonder if Spotless' functions can be duplicated with normal shell commands? | |
| Jan 27 2008 |
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.
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| Jan 18 2008 |
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.
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| Sep 9 2007 |
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) | |
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| Jun 7 2007 |
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) | |
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| Mar 5 2007 |
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) | |
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| Mar 7 2007 |
SJK $8? Price is $12.95 in this MU listing.
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Mar 7 2007 |
JIMW The listing displayed $7.95 to me when I wrote the comment. I rounded to the nearest dollar. It now displays $12.95 for me as well so I would guess that either an error was made on the initial listing that has been corrected or the price has gone up. 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.
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Mar 7 2007 |
SJK Yeah, I figured it was $8 at the time of your post. Like you, I wouldn't buy it at any price since Spotlight has been manageable enough for my purposes without it. Obviously other people will get enough value from it to pay for it, although the $5 price hike will probably scare off a few potential customers.
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Jun 3 2007 |
ZOIDBERG The Private list, at least in my experience, often "forgets" what you tell it. I have several backup drives I attach to my machine; each time I attach them, Spotlight (which I love, not knocking Spotlight) would begin to index it, even though they are added to the Private list. After I started using Spotless, it hasn't happened again.
(Version 1.2.4) | |
| Mar 5 2007 |
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) | |
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| Oct 26 2005 |
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) | |
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| Oct 26 2005 |
KONG I ran Spotless, indicated to turn Spotlight off during first-time startup, couldn't set status on the second partition of my firewire-drive (error: The command exited with a non-zero status). No "X" or other sign was ever visible in the menu-bar for me. Tying to turn spotlight back on using Spotless all I get is the same error-message as above as soon as click "continue" after the initial password-screen. Plus "Indexing seems to be activated, but blablahbla", after which I choose the "enable"-feature. No effect whatsoever. Next startup it says it seems to DEactivated, after I hit "enable". Then I enable again, all I see thereafter is "error reading status" "error" and "status unknown". No refresh possible either. How do I reverse this? Wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of backup-feature before one uses Spotless for the first time, so users can revert to the status quo if something happened? I tried CLIX to verify if indexing was on or off, but it says that it can's verify spotlight's status, neither can I turn it on or off.... Had I seen the many possible errors listed on the site's support-page beforehand I wouldn't have dared to run this thing. | |
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| Oct 20 2005 |
KQED im still trying to figure out why you would want to disable spotlight indexing...
(Version 1.0.3) | |
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| Oct 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS some peeps just don't like it, i'm not nuts about it myself.
(Version 1.0.3) | |
| Oct 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS if you have a backup drive mounted, its a real pain to have spotlight showing results from items on a backup drive.
(Version 1.0.3) | |
| Sep 7 2006 |
BOOTHEFOX if someone has an old mac like me for media purposes - there is no need for searching, but any gain of speed is a value - still don't know if it helps the speed, but... no need anyway....
(Version 1.1) | |
| Sep 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Why is the Spotlight icon gone when I click it know? There is only an 'x' ??
(Version 1.0.2) | |
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| Sep 16 2005 |
I USE IT This Developer makes Printer Setup Repair that has saved me time and money. Spotless is just another example of a utility product that maintains a Mac OS in top-shape. It also allows you to delete Spotlight index on any drive. Very courteous Developer too.
(Version 1.0.2) | |
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| Aug 26 2005 |
JON macosxhints will tell you how to do these things for free.
(Version 1.0.1) | |
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| May 19 2005 |
TOMIS So there really is no way to disable the useless content indexing while still maintaining other search functions? This is what I feared. So, no Tiger for me. At least these guys make it easy to kill spotlight outright.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| May 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It is really easy to do this without any third party utility. Go to the Privacy tab in system preferences, drag your volume, Spotlight won't index it. Period.
(Version 1.0) | |
| May 22 2005 |
L66 Yes, but it still runs, and if volumes are not indexed file search is unavailable as well. I killed spotlight and use a 3rd party search utility now, easyfind. I don't know what they were thinking at Apple but I do not want an XP style thingy that cannot be turned off without losing all functionality in my system. I wish I could get the old Panther search back...
(Version 1.0) | |
| Oct 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Easyfind is better than the old finder anyway, and is free... I just want to assign apple-F to open it! As it is I use a spare mouse button for that.
(Version 1.0.2) | |
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