FoxTrot Search Forum
FoxTrot Search for macOS Forum

Home » Public Forums » FoxTrot Search User Forum » Spotlight - Why Would I turn it off?
Spotlight - Why Would I turn it off? [message #838] Tue, 22 January 2019 05:37 Go to next message
Wiggly
Messages: 1
Registered: January 2019
Junior Member
The subject line says it all.

Appreciate the feedback.
Re: Spotlight - Why Would I turn it off? [message #839 is a reply to message #838] Tue, 22 January 2019 09:35 Go to previous message
FoxTrot Engineering
Messages: 406
Registered: April 2020
Senior Member
Don't turn it off if you don't need to. However, in some situations (e.g. small SSD), you may want to reclaim the disk space used by Spotlight for other usage, or prevent it to use your CPU to index large data you don't need to index.


Jérôme - CTM Engineering

------------------------------------------------------------ ---------
"I searched for words inside text documents and was pleasantly surprised
when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in
the preview drawer."
FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com

Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch
------------------------------------------------------------ ---------


Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
Previous Topic: PowerMail
Next Topic: Feature Request: Ability to Export Bookmarks (and Bookmarked Documents).
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Tue Dec 03 18:14:40 GMT+1 2024