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Product Description:
Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight content indexing of volumes with the click of a button.
Spotlight content indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, Photoshop scratch disks, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer of large amounts of data. Spotless can effectively and indefinitely disable the indexing of volumes that you specify. Even if the volume is a removable device, the indexing status is remembered when you remount it - even on a different computer!
Simply adding volumes to Spotlight's privacy list does not achieve the same results as using Spotless. You may cause the Metadata Server to crash, and the volumes may be indexed the next time you mount them. Also, while adding volumes to the privacy list disables content indexing, it also prevents you from finding the files by name.
Spotless allows you to delete existing Spotlight indexes. This will free up the space used by the index files on volumes that are no longer being indexed. You may also delete indexes on volumes that are being indexed. This will cause Spotlight to reindex the volume - especially useful if your index becomes damaged.
If you are having difficulties with Spotlight indexing, it could be because the ".Spotlight-V100" directory on the volume has become damaged in some way. Spotless provides a quick way to delete this directory and set the initial indexing status of the volume. In order to set the indexing status, the ".Spotlight-V100" directory will be recreated.
Spotless will automatically find and delete the "mds-crash-state" file from selected volumes. The file may be created if the Metadata Server crashed or was unexpectedly closed during the indexing process. The presence of this file can prevent Spotlight from indexing the volume in the future.
Spotless allows you to see exact size the index directory on each volume.
Spotless also includes an on/off switch for Spotlight.
Spotlight content indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, Photoshop scratch disks, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer of large amounts of data. Spotless can effectively and indefinitely disable the indexing of volumes that you specify. Even if the volume is a removable device, the indexing status is remembered when you remount it - even on a different computer!
Simply adding volumes to Spotlight's privacy list does not achieve the same results as using Spotless. You may cause the Metadata Server to crash, and the volumes may be indexed the next time you mount them. Also, while adding volumes to the privacy list disables content indexing, it also prevents you from finding the files by name.
Spotless allows you to delete existing Spotlight indexes. This will free up the space used by the index files on volumes that are no longer being indexed. You may also delete indexes on volumes that are being indexed. This will cause Spotlight to reindex the volume - especially useful if your index becomes damaged.
If you are having difficulties with Spotlight indexing, it could be because the ".Spotlight-V100" directory on the volume has become damaged in some way. Spotless provides a quick way to delete this directory and set the initial indexing status of the volume. In order to set the indexing status, the ".Spotlight-V100" directory will be recreated.
Spotless will automatically find and delete the "mds-crash-state" file from selected volumes. The file may be created if the Metadata Server crashed or was unexpectedly closed during the indexing process. The presence of this file can prevent Spotlight from indexing the volume in the future.
Spotless allows you to see exact size the index directory on each volume.
Spotless also includes an on/off switch for Spotlight.
What's new in this version:
- Added support for UFS volumes.
- Added information about the file system of a selected volume.
- Added support for volumes that do not appear in the /Volumes directory - such as mounted FileVault user directories.
- Added the option to delete the entire Spotlight index directory.
- Added an option to refresh the indexing status information of the selected volume.
- Added an option to refresh the Metadata Server status information.
- Fixed a bug that would leave the "Red X" icon in the menu after enabling Spotlight indexing.
- Fixed a bug that may have incorrectly reported that Spotlight indexing was not running.
- Fixed a rare bug that could have created an empty hostconfig file while attempting to enable or disable Spotlight.
- Modified the interface.
- Additional rewording of status messages.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (1.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.5) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (4.5) |
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The Insanity Ends Here - Version: 1.2.7, 4/21/2009 11:35AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
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
(5 of 5 users found this comment useful)
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.
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 !!!