Controlling Spotlight

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Merlin - 28 Apr 2006 14:33 GMT

I understand that Spotlight will index USB and FW drives connected to
the computer. Has anyone found out how to make it catalogue network
drives? And / or catalogue CDs / DVDs?

Thanks

Merl

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Sander Tekelenburg - 29 Apr 2006 18:26 GMT

> [...] Has anyone found out how to make it catalogue [...] CDs / DVDs?

Spotlight stores the index on the drive itself, so it won't work with
read-only media.

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Merlin - 30 Apr 2006 06:54 GMT

> > [...] Has anyone found out how to make it catalogue [...] CDs / DVDs?
>
> Spotlight stores the index on the drive itself, so it won't work with
> read-only media.

That makes sense, thank you Sander. I'll stop worrying about that one.

How about network drives?

Merl

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Ilgaz Öcal - 30 Apr 2006 09:30 GMT

> I understand that Spotlight will index USB and FW drives connected to
> the computer. Has anyone found out how to make it catalogue network
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>
> Merl

There is "Spotless" utility specializes in external drives which is a
great benefit for USB sticks.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26842

It also have some "maintanance" options.

Network drives: I have no clue

Ilgaz

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