| Re: Interaction in the settings between macOS and Foxtrot regarding folders excluded from Spotlight [message #1157 is a reply to message #1156] |
Sun, 14 March 2021 14:03   |
stephan
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Registered: March 2021
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Hi Michel,
I do not follow your answer: "What you set in FoxTrot only conditions what you exclude in FoxTrot Indexing; what you exclude in Spotlight conditions what is excluded from Spotlight indexing." Because, the FoxTrot "Spotlight" settings clearly states in the note: "If you disable the Spotlight index, Spotlight will continue to search by file name only (from the menu bar or from the Finder's search field), and Apple Mail will only be searchable through FoxTrot."
->So this "Spotlight" setting within Foxtrot defines the scope of indexed locations by Spotlight, at least the Note in the Foxtrot settings says so.
->& this is exactly the same functionality as the one offered in the Spotlight settings of MacOS (please see in the screenshots provided) where folders can be excluded from Spotlight indexing
->In other words, there are 2 settings in which the folders excluded by Spotlight can be managed, namely the one in MacOS Spotlight, and the Spotlight settings in Foxtrot.
When you write, my main volume seems to have Spotlight indexing disabled, this is not what is shown in the screenshots. In the screenshots it shows that nothing is excluded as per the MacOS settings, while my user directory is excluded as per Foxtrot's spotlight settings (but not the entire volume).
Which other Volume do you mean? I only have one Volume.
I certainly understand that Foxtrot does not use Spotlight to perform the searches, but that was not my question.
My questions were/are:
1. With both the Finder and Foxtrot offering settings which folders being excluded by Spotlight, and since they seem to contradict by default settings, which of the 2 settings is now the effective one?
2. Since I do not want to have anything excluded from Spotlight search, what do I have to do? Most likely I will have to change the default Foxtrot Spotlight setting an enable my user folder for Spotlight indexing - is this correct?
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