[X Newbies] Phone Number Mystery

[Joe Ellis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "TheMacintoshLady" <TheMacintoshLady at earthlink.net>
To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [X Newbies] Phone Number Mystery


> jerrywilson tapped out this message on 3/3/2003 9:30 PM
>
> >Sherlock use to Index your HD,  In OS X prior to Jaguar.
>
> Yes I know that inside and out. I was looking for the central place to
> turn off indexing on X.
>

Why would you want to turn indexing off in OS X? It's a process that runs in
the background to support "Find by Content" and is self limiting as to size
of indexes it builds. Once the indexes are built they don't take a lot of
space and they don't "grow" a lot and don't take a lot of system resources
to keep up to date. If your system disk is so starved for space that you
feel these indices are causing problems then you really need to get a larger
drive or allocate more space to your system volume. Keep in mind that OS X
is designed to run in an "always on" state and has several "housekeeping"
routines that are supposed to run on a regular schedule to maintain the
system in a "healthy" state.

Joe Ellis