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Instead of Spotlight
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That sounds a bit odd to me. Why would anyone hate Spotlight?
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It starts searching before I’m finished typing.
It doesn’t find files I know are there.
It is way way slower than Find Any File.
It’s a tedious, multi-step solution to a “problem” that didn’t need fixing. The old OS9 file header index search never needed to index and was simpler and faster. Find Any File restores that functionality to your basic Finder find.
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[Craig Shields] “That sounds a bit odd to me. Why would anyone hate Spotlight?”
Because it’s continually indexing. This is bad in a SAN environment and could even slow down a stand alone RAID if it was full with enough files.
In our case, it causes dropped frames when Spotlight indexing is enabled on our media arrays. For most people you won’t notice anything, but in some cases, it can be very bad.
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I run both our disk arrays with spot light disabled since day 1.
its listed as an optimization.
if i need to find something and I don’t know where it is(very rare)
I enable spotlight on the raid til i find it then disable again.
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