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The Insanity Ends Here - Version: 1.2.7, 4/21/2009 11:35AM PST
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vitoarc
This Version 
- Version: 1.2.3, 3/7/2007 06:25PM PST
(4 of 5 users found this comment useful)
bratdaddy
is working perfectly for me.
Excellent app! - Version: 1.2.2, 2/27/2007 05:01PM PST
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PQXYZ33
I moved from Panther to Tiger because Spotlight sounded sssooooo promising, and it seemed to work just great at the local Apple retail store. In practice, however, I found that it deosn't find all the files that it should, it continues to "find" files on drives that have been put in the privacy list, and it chokes on internal or external drives or volumes that are clones of the main boot drive.
Even worse, once I unmount those external clones, Spotlight seems to continue to "hunt" for them, using up CPU resources (as much as ~90% every few seconds) and doing thousands of disk writes (which coincide with the use of CPU resources every few seconds)--even when nothing else at all is going on.
Disabling Spotlight with Spotless completely eliminates the problems caused by Spotlight--and now, being able to remove the Spotlight icon from the menubar is icing on the cake!
Thank you Spotless!
-Don-
P.S. The developer has been very responsive (in the past) to some questions and feature requests that I had.
Even worse, once I unmount those external clones, Spotlight seems to continue to "hunt" for them, using up CPU resources (as much as ~90% every few seconds) and doing thousands of disk writes (which coincide with the use of CPU resources every few seconds)--even when nothing else at all is going on.
Disabling Spotlight with Spotless completely eliminates the problems caused by Spotlight--and now, being able to remove the Spotlight icon from the menubar is icing on the cake!
Thank you Spotless!
-Don-
P.S. The developer has been very responsive (in the past) to some questions and feature requests that I had.
Doesn't find all mounted volumes - Version: 1.2.2, 2/27/2007 01:01AM PST
lenwhyte
In moving from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2, Spotless unfortunately no longer finds all mounted volumes on my machine. I think this is because I have volumes with the mount-point having user and group ownership in the name of the owning user, and not root or admin. The old version 1.2.1 finds and manipulates these volumes just fine.
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- Doesn't find all mounted volumes
Works perfectly... - Version: 1.2.2, 2/26/2007 09:08AM PST
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Froggies--2008
It remembers the settings for external drives and stops Spotlight from indexing them. An excellent app.
Question on usage - Version: 1.1, 11/11/2006 07:34AM PST
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tuqqer
I'm trying this out on my MacBook. How do you get a volume to show up in the list? I've tried restarting. No fancy formatting, just the way the drive came from Apple. About half the drive is empty. I'd so love to dump Spotlight.
Goodbye Spotlight... - Version: 1.1, 8/20/2006 06:02PM PST
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bratdaddy
welcome back, EasyFind. If Spotless would provide for the generic disabling of external drives I would keep Spotlight active on my internal disk. Since I often resize and rename my externals I am forced to use one of the best freeware application ever written, EasyFind. Thank you FixaMac, thank you Devon, Apple, I am leaving a message.
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A Must Have - Version: 1.1, 3/29/2006 10:43PM PST
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mrmobius
Version 1.1 of Spotless finally allowed me to upgrade to Tiger. I've been running 10.3.9 for almost a year after Tigers' release. Widgets, need I say more? Endless clutter, no scalable windows, and continuous memory use, ick. Sherlock is enough. Then this automatic look everywhere at one, need to search my search, spotlight? Apple misnamed it's search technology, it should be called Floodlight. As a professional audio engineer and freelance Mac tech the notion of needing to manually stop disable the indexing of every external drive I mount on my mac was absurd. I put a damaged mac into target mode, Carbon Copy Clone, or run Disk Warrior, oh but wait, why is it so slow? I forgot, Flood... I mean Spotlight is indexing; Open system preferences, drag to window, start repair/copy.
I think the most important features of Spotless 1.1, is the ability to disable the automatic part of Spotlight.
Set your internal drive in the spotless drive list to, "Auto = No" and the global automatic setting to "On + Disable" and your good to go. With this setting Spotlight is lightning fast on your internal and still searches, not excluding by name, your external volumes. Powerful to say the least and you can always designate other drives to ignore the automatic setting.
This is highly recommended for audio/video professionals as well as techs. So drop down the ten bucks and enjoy Spotlight the way it should have been from the start.
I think the most important features of Spotless 1.1, is the ability to disable the automatic part of Spotlight.
Set your internal drive in the spotless drive list to, "Auto = No" and the global automatic setting to "On + Disable" and your good to go. With this setting Spotlight is lightning fast on your internal and still searches, not excluding by name, your external volumes. Powerful to say the least and you can always designate other drives to ignore the automatic setting.
This is highly recommended for audio/video professionals as well as techs. So drop down the ten bucks and enjoy Spotlight the way it should have been from the start.
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excellent! - Version: 1.1, 3/21/2006 10:02AM PST
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tracy valleau--2008
While I despise Spotlight, I find I have to use it becasue FoxTrot requires it. That said, Spotless is great. Unlike one previous poster, I find the developer cordial and quick to respond. I have no trouble with spotless "remembering" the settings on my removable drives.
This software works as advertised, and the new ability to simply ignore removable volumes (for people like me who use them for backups) is great.
Highly recommended product.
This software works as advertised, and the new ability to simply ignore removable volumes (for people like me who use them for backups) is great.
Highly recommended product.
You are correct... - Version: 1.0.3, 2/22/2006 10:57AM PST
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Gennx30
so I simply deleted every bit of this useless application, Spotlight, that is-(though an unremovable root-level folder still resprouts) and now use EASYFIND-(which I used to remove it) a much more sensible way to find things-like you could do from the finder menu in Panther...and things run a bit zippier, too.
Im sure 'Metadata' has its uses, but not to me...
Im sure 'Metadata' has its uses, but not to me...
Whatever the reason, if you have a bootable external drive, or even just a couple of externals, you know the hassle of your HD fan whirling around like some crazed Apache Helicopter, indexing your drive and your attached drives for the umpteenth time.
I'm still suffering from Post Traumatic Fan Disorder.
Download, then throw down the gauntlet and give this developer some cash for ending your insanity, a craziness that your Apple friends dropped in your lap like a glass of red wine. But now, you can be SPOTLESS !!!