[X-Newbies] Re: Wait! I have a new question!

[Michael Winter]

On May 23, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Carter Tomassi wrote:

>> I haven't tried it out yet, but theoretically Spotlight can be used 
>> to index removable disks and save the index to a local (boot only?) 
>> drive. From there, Spotlight could be used to search removable media 
>> not currently in the machine.
>
> Tried it. Once the DVD is ejected the .savedSearch file is empty. Is 
> there another way of saving?

As I understand it, yes. But it has to be done from the command line. 
If I find how its done I'll let you know.

-Mike