Disabling Spotlight in Snow Leopard is quite easy. Simply enter the following into Terminal, hit enter. You may need to enter your Admin password.
sudo mdutil -a -i off
To turn it back on just enter the following:
sudo mdutil -a -i on
Source: OSX Daily
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I can’t get the gd thing or the finder to work in SnowShoe or whatever they call the monster that Microsoft must have built for them.
I’m not quite sure I get your question.
This proposed fix and several others did not work. Nobody knew why at Apple, either. A third party program, a shareware called Spotless 3X. Worked like a charm when nothing else would.
Really? I saw you already inquired of the guys over at OSXDaily. So your running Snow leopard and have the latest update? I searched all over and this command is what everyone is using. I am curious if the way people install SL would effect this command.
Wiped disk, did fresh install, reinstalled, reinstalled, reinstalled under direction of apple guy. Very knowledgable but puzzled. Most folks do not have the problem. My best guess is that there was a corruption somewhere that kept the drag in-drag out to reindex from working. Some privacy error. Changed all kinds of setting to try to get that to work, did the terminal commands on another go-round. In the end it was the third party program that worked.