| Re: Interaction in the settings between macOS and Foxtrot regarding folders excluded from Spotlight [message #1159 is a reply to message #1158] |
Sun, 14 March 2021 17:14   |
stephan
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Registered: March 2021
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Hi Michel,
This is understood. The point Is that the finder offers exactly the same setting ( https://support.apple.com/de-ch/guide/mac-help/mchlp2811/mac) and the 2 settings were different on my computer (see also my screenshots): The setting in Spotlight shows that my main user folder was excluded from Spotlight indexing, while the setting in AppleOS did not.
As you wrote earlier, this feature was introduced to gain performance by avoiding a double-indexing. The point is, I cannot remember having excluded my user folder from indexing under this setting in Foxtrot; so this seems to be a default setting becoming effective after the Foxtrot installation, which has caused Spotlight not to index my main user folder anymore, with the result that emails were no longer properly indexed in the mail application. And since the this exclusion does not show up when checking the standard MacOS Spotlight indexing setting, it was hard to notice why Spotlight was no longer indexing everything e.g. the mails.
Hope you can follow my thoughts and now understand the confusion and issues this has caused.
Kind regards,
Stephan
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