Instead of Spotlight

[Martin Nelson]

“Did you select “file name” not “content” and also tell it to search the media drive?”

Yes and it still doesn’t show up. I think CMD F abides by the same Privacy rules that Spotlight does. I”ve prevented Spotlight from searching these drives (System Prefs>Spotlight>Privacy), maybe that keeps Find from searching them as well.

Martin

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[David Roth weiss]

[Martin Nelson] “Because several sources (I’ll try to find and post them later) have said that Spotlight creates conflicts with FCP.”

That’s just not an issue Martin, period, end of story.

You clearly need a reliable consultant. If you quantify the time you’re spent getting up to speed you’d realize that you’ve paid many time over what a consultant would have charged, and you’d be way ahead.

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[Rob Grauert]

I’ve never heard of Spotlight causing issues before either, but if you insist on downloading something you can download EasyFind. It’s a free download my boss insisted I install for searching our 16TB Xsan.

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[Mark Raudonis]

What Martin is referring to is that Spotlight and X-SAN just didn’t work in early versions of X-SAN.
Frankly, it still can be quite sketchy, so many people running large shared storage set ups prefer to disable spotlight as the default position.

Mark

[Walter Biscardi]

[Martin Nelson] “Because several sources (I’ll try to find and post them later) have said that Spotlight creates conflicts with FCP.”

Martin, the issue with Spotlight, as far as I know, is related to Ethernet SANs. You do have to disable Spotlight from the media arrays because Spotlight is constantly cataloguing the files on the drives and this causes a drop in transfer speed, so you get dropped frames. We have to disable Spotlight from any and all media arrays that are attached to our SAN to prevent dropped frames.

The folks at Small Tree take care of this for us when we install new arrays. We currently have 32TB as part of 2 arrays and Spotlight is disabled on all of it.

But you can also disable Spotlight from any of your media arrays and it will improve the performance of any media array if you want to do this.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Roth Weiss] “That’s just not an issue Martin, period, end of story.”

It absolutely can be an issue as we have discovered here with our SAN. Spotlight can cause dropped frames across a SAN.

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[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “It absolutely can be an issue as we have discovered here with our SAN. Spotlight can cause dropped frames across a SAN. “

Martin does not have a SAN and he’s been having issues getting his system up to speed for weeks due to misinformation and over-thinking. So, he needs far less information that isn’t pertinent to his situation.

David Roth Weiss
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[Michael Orlansky]

Martin,

You could look into buying Final Cut Server, that will catalog your 7 TB and make them searchable.

Thanks,
Mike

[Martin Nelson]

Thanks for all the responses. Since I don’t have a SAN, I’m going to assume I’m safe to turn Spotlight back on. It will certainly ease my life.

Martin

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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

[Mark Spano]

I hate Spotlight for way more reasons than if/how it’s messing with your workflow – I use the infinitely faster Find Any File. Not just for the OP, but good for anyone who wants to do simple, old-school-style file finding. And SUPER fast, if I didn’t mention that.