Comments on: Disabling Spotlight in Snow Leopard

By: Richard McDonough

Richard McDonough — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:15:21 +0000

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.

By: Caleb (Author)

Caleb (Author) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:10:32 +0000

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.

By: Richard McDonough

Richard McDonough — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:47:19 +0000

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.

By: Caleb (Author)

Caleb (Author) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:13:27 +0000

I’m not quite sure I get your question.

By: Richard McDonough

Richard McDonough — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:41:03 +0000

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.