Turn off spotlight/indexing in Leopard/Snow Leopard

psychonaut — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:54:39 +0000

Only fitting that my first post should be about a technical issue… anyway:

Courtesy WallyBear:

Do not change system file permissions! To disable Spotlight in Leopard, just do the following:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

(first line stops it, second line tells the system to disable it permanently)

To reenable it:

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

(same meaning but reenabling instead of disabling)
That’s all

what’s this all about?

psychonaut — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:01:00 +0000

I go through a lot of music in a year, and find an insane load of artists that are generating brilliant vibes… I needed to catalog the ones that made an impact.

I like to explore a few things that interest me, and like to share what I find.

Perhaps this is also to help organize the chaos in my head.

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Turn off spotlight/indexing in Leopard/Snow Leopard

what’s this all about?