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Re: Interaction in the settings between macOS and Foxtrot regarding folders excluded from Spotlight [message #1154 is a reply to message #1153] Sun, 14 March 2021 13:11 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hello Stefan,

There are no interactions between your Spotlight privacy settings and FoxTrot - we do NOT use Spotlight for searching, to be clear !

The reason we have a setting in FoxTrot to disable Spotlight was for allowing to gain performance (this disables Spotlight's background indexing, which does take a bit of CPU although that was more of a concern in the earlier days of FoxTrot) AND save disk space, since no Spotlight index is needed if you use FoxTrot for your searches.

Finally, FoxTrot Search offers similar privacy settings allowing you to exclude certain directories from your index.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

jean michel/ctm qa

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