Yes, if I use Foxtrot prefs to disable Spotlight and then let Foxtrot index whatever folders I have chosen to index, Foxtrot does work. Unfortunately, however, the process mdimport then runs and every few seconds accesses some percentage of CPU resources and does a disk write-out as well; if I go away for a few hours and leave my computer running, I will find hundreds of thousands of disk writes-out have occurred in the meantime.
With Spotlight disabled using a third-party program such as Spotless, the mdimport problem is completely eliminated, but so is the functionality of Foxtrot.
If I open a terminal window and edit /etc/hostconfig to set SPOTLIGHT-NO- then the mdimport problem is eliminated AND Foxtrot works as it should--except that I get that annoying error message every time Foxtrot starts telling me that the mdimporters are disabled or broken when that is completely untrue.
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Hello Jerome,Yes, if I use Foxtrot prefs to disable Spotlight and then let Foxtrot index whatever folders I have chosen to index, Foxtrot does work. Unfortunately, however, the process mdimport then runs and every few seconds accesses some percentage of CPU resources and does a disk write-out as well; if I go away for a few hours and leave my computer running, I will find hundreds of thousands of disk writes-out have occurred in the meantime.
With Spotlight disabled using a third-party program such as Spotless, the mdimport problem is completely eliminated, but so is the functionality of Foxtrot.
If I open a terminal window and edit /etc/hostconfig to set SPOTLIGHT-NO- then the mdimport problem is eliminated AND Foxtrot works as it should--except that I get that annoying error message every time Foxtrot starts telling me that the mdimporters are disabled or broken when that is completely untrue.
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-Don-
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