Michael Winter tapped out this message on 3/4/2003 4:28 PM >In the Finder, choose Preferences from the Finder menu. At the bottom >there is a "Select..." button for "Languages for searching file >contents". If you click that button, a new window pops up saying >"Select the languages you want to use when you search the contents of >files. Select fewer languages to make indexing faster and use less disk >space." followed by a list of languages with checkboxes. > >The default has several languages checked. To make it faster, deselect >all the extras. I don't know for sure if de-selecting all of them is >equivalent to turning indexing off completely or not, but it would seem >like that should do it. > >Might be worth a try. THANKS!!! I had found this before but since it was not obvious I could not remember where I had done it. That was just the info I was looking for. And you are right, it DOES turn it off, it may have been turned on when I deleted some prefs files. Hey I'm no spring chickie anymore, sometimes we have so much to remember! I knew there was place to do this, I'd just done it two days ago.