| Re: Interaction in the settings between macOS and Foxtrot regarding folders excluded from Spotlight [message #1160 is a reply to message #1159] |
Mon, 15 March 2021 10:36   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Spotlight has a hidden setting (a Terminal.app command line: mdutil) to disable indexing for a whole volume (drive). We made this setting visible in FoxTrot's preferences, so you can avoid double-indexing your data, which is CPU intensive and can waste precious disk space.
Independently from that, Spotlight has a System Preference setting to disable searching some locations (folders). It is not clear to me if disabling searching there actually disables indexing (saving disk space and CPU usage) or not. This may depend whether you put folders or whole volumes in this list.
I can't tell what is Spotlight's default behavior regarding volumes; it certainly depends of their kind (internal drive, ejectable drive, network drive…) and filesystem. I don't know either how it behaves with encrypted volumes, maybe the volume itself may be unindexed, while Spotlight actually indexes the data inside the encrypted envelope?
FoxTrot does not disable Spotlight indexing without your consent (this requires your admin password).
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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