Comments on: A Dim View of Spotlight http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/#comment-11176 Michael Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:14:09 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1142#comment-11176 My fresh Spotlight indexing with 10.4.3 started Thursday morning and concluded Saturday morning. Good News: Now it's working much better than before; most searches take just a few seconds. Searches in the Finder are faster than in Path Finder. Bad News: The indexer crashed half a dozen times, and it never reported an estimate of the time remaining. The fifth search that I tried should have found a file, but didn't. After returning "No Results Found," it locked up the Spotlight menu. SystemUIServer gobbled hundreds of MB of RAM, and I would have restarted except that I was in the middle of burning a DVD. After about ten minutes, the menu unfroze and displayed the proper list of matching files. My fresh Spotlight indexing with 10.4.3 started Thursday morning and concluded Saturday morning.

Good News: Now it's working much better than before; most searches take just a few seconds. Searches in the Finder are faster than in Path Finder.

Bad News: The indexer crashed half a dozen times, and it never reported an estimate of the time remaining. The fifth search that I tried should have found a file, but didn't. After returning "No Results Found," it locked up the Spotlight menu. SystemUIServer gobbled hundreds of MB of RAM, and I would have restarted except that I was in the middle of burning a DVD. After about ten minutes, the menu unfroze and displayed the proper list of matching files.

]]> By: jem http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/#comment-11175 jem Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:00:56 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1142#comment-11175 I just saw the announcement on their web site ... makes everything much more interesting. I just saw the announcement on their web site ... makes everything much more interesting.

]]> By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/#comment-11174 Michael Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:49:39 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1142#comment-11174 Jan: Yes, I'm a tester for Path Finder 4, which is a major update that will be out soon. Eric: I tried the re-indexing thing several times with previous versions. I'll give it a fresh try on 10.4.3. Jan: Yes, I'm a tester for Path Finder 4, which is a major update that will be out soon.

Eric: I tried the re-indexing thing several times with previous versions. I'll give it a fresh try on 10.4.3.

]]> By: ejalbert http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/#comment-11173 ejalbert Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:14:48 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1142#comment-11173 I'd suggest trying it again on 10.4.3, or perhaps deleting your indexes and letting Spotlight reindex your system. Spotlight works very well for me on a system much slower than yours with hundreds of thousands of files. I'd suggest trying it again on 10.4.3, or perhaps deleting your indexes and letting Spotlight reindex your system. Spotlight works very well for me on a system much slower than yours with hundreds of thousands of files.

]]> By: jem http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/11/16/a-dim-view-of-spotlight/#comment-11172 jem Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:43:03 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1142#comment-11172 Couldn't agree more, Spotlight in it's current implementation isn't useful at all ... the only reason why I have it enabled is the file search feature. Which brings me to my next question: I was actually looking a Path Finder earlier today (for a completely different reason), I noticed that version 4 was announced over a year ago and not much seems to have happened the last six months. Is this product still alive? Couldn't agree more, Spotlight in it's current implementation isn't useful at all ... the only reason why I have it enabled is the file search feature. Which brings me to my next question: I was actually looking a Path Finder earlier today (for a completely different reason), I noticed that version 4 was announced over a year ago and not much seems to have happened the last six months. Is this product still alive?

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