[OS X TeX] Re: Fwd: [Ii2-announce] TeXLive i-Package updated

[Enrico Franconi]

It is possible to permanently add directories to spotlight by  
explicitly adding them to the _rules.plist of the main volume file  
using its own editor as follows:

sudo /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property\ List\ Editor.app/ 
Contents/MacOS/Property\ List\ Editor /.Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist

After that, you have to erase the master copy of the metadata stores  
for the provided volumes and rebuild everything, as follows:

sudo mdutil -E /

Hope this helps
--e.

On 20 May 2007, at 14:38, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On May 19, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Bill Rowe wrote:
>
>>
>> There are two aspects to the preference pane for Spotlight. The  
>> first is a list of 14 preset file categories. Unchecking a  
>> category will cause Spotlight not to index files of in that  
>> category but will not disable Spotlight in general.
>>
>> The second tab labeled Private presents a window where directories  
>> can be entered. Any directory in this list will not be indexed by  
>> Spotlight. I suppose instead of using mdutil, you could navigate  
>> to the top level directory of your drive and prevent Spotlight  
>> from indexing anything on that drive.
>>
>> Note, Spotlight is enabled by default. So, unless you have taken  
>> specific actions Spotlight will be enabled on your machine.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> There are many directories Spotlight will NOT index by default.  
> These include the hidden directories (at least via Finder) such as / 
> bin/ and /usr/. So by default Spotlight will not be indexing /usr/ 
> local/... .
>
> You can force Spotlight to index a directory (and recursively its  
> sub-directories) by using
>
> mdimport -f directory-path
>
> but, as far as I can tell, this is a one time index so it gets  
> (partially?) lost if anything in that directory (or below) gets  
> changed so you have to re-run the command if things change. The  
> SpotlightIndexer software basically is a GUI fron end for the  
> command above; but make sure you have `Force import' checked in its  
> Preferences.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
>
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