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Instead of Spotlight
I understand, from here and elsewhere, that I should isolate my media drives from Apple’s Spotlight. Is there a third-party app I can use in lieu of Spotlight to track down files on these drives, but not yet in Final Cut. I’m essentially looking for a desktop search tool that doesn’t conflict with the app.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
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Martin,
What?
Configuring Macs for FCS does not require a whole heck of a lot of tinkering. You seem to be over-thinking this whole thing. If you’ve finally got your computer working again, just get on with the creative part of your work. Honestly, this isn’t rocket science.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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If you turn off spot light on a drive, ‘CMD F’ still works in the finder, just not as fast.
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/AFX.html
https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/KnitWits_Movie.html
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251670/EDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Editing_Reel.html
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There’s just no reason to do it. When computers were slower it might have been useful, now it’s just not important.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Well, thanks David, nothing would make me happier that to go back to the creative part of my job, but in getting everything running again, new issues have arisen. Without making this one of my usual long responses, I often need to find a file that isn’t in the project, but is somewhere on my 7 TB of media drives. If I can’t use Spotlight (which, again, I’ve been told here and elsewhere I shouldn’t) how do I go about searching this huge haystack for my clip?
And, yes, better organization would have helped, but I inherited the existing organization.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
“There’s just no reason to do it. When computers were slower it might have been useful, now it’s just not important.”
I don’t know what you’re responding to here, David. Sorry.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
“If you turn off spot light on a drive, ‘CMD F’ still works in the finder, just not as fast.”
Warren, as a test, I just copied the name of a file from one of the media drives that have Privacy on in Spotlight. I then went to the desktop and and used CMD F and pasted in the name. Didn’t find it.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
Why turn off Spotlight? Let Spotlight index the 7TBs on your drive, then you should be good to go. It might take a while the first time, but then you’re all good.
Jeremy
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Works for me. Did you select “file name” not “content” and also tell it to search the media drive?
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/AFX.html
https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/KnitWits_Movie.html
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251670/EDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Editing_Reel.html
TITLE DESIGN: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Titles_Reel.html -
‘Why turn off Spotlight?”
Because several sources (I’ll try to find and post them later) have said that Spotlight creates conflicts with FCP. I’ve been fighting major issues and, having finally gotten back up and running, hate to chance it.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
[Martin Nelson] “Because several sources (I’ll try to find and post them later) have said that Spotlight creates conflicts with FCP. “
I have never heard of that, perhaps it was in really early versions of Leopard.
[Martin Nelson] “I’ve been fighting major issues and, having finally gotten back up and running, hate to chance it. “
Do tell. Major issues?
Is this 7TB on a fast raid?
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