Comments on: Spotlight in Tiger: More trouble than it’s worth?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:05:35 +0000

Well it does sound like Spotlight in Leopard is an improvement then. Thanks for the feedback.

I think one of the reasons I like the theory of Spotlight is that it’s making the computer a bit more than a glorified filing system. In an ideal “star trek” world I should be able to just tell the computer what I want, rather than hunt for it!

Another reason is that I’d rather find stuff by typing than by hunting around with the mouse…

By: Si

Si — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:32:32 +0000

I rarely use Spotlight, I must say. Whilst Apple may want us to have all our data in some amorphous cloud, in reality mine’s pretty well organised, so I find it easier to just go to the file. It does seem quite swift though - no lockup or beach ball.

I’ve just tried excluding one of the backup drives in spotlight prefs under Leopard, and it does appear to retain the exclusion, even after unmounting and then turning the drive off and on.