Comments on: What the heck are you doing Spotlight?

By: levifig

levifig — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:36:06 +0000

BTW, had the same problem, googled, found this article, replaced my Spotlight.app with the one from a previous Time Machine backup (actually from before I formatted and re-installed OSX 2 days ago) and now it seems to be working…

Kinda weird, if you ask me… :|

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:20:43 +0000

Hi. I'm having the same problem with my Spotlight. Do you think you could send me a working copy of the program? If included my email address, so you can just email it to me. Thanks a lot.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:20:43 +0000

Hi. I’m having the same problem with my Spotlight. Do you think you could send me a working copy of the program? If included my email address, so you can just email it to me. Thanks a lot.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:19:09 +0000

Disabling spotlight is a terrible idea.

Good lord. It's the system wide file watching agent and integrated search function. I use the “search” function in the Finder maybe once a week but you _need_ it to be functional.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:19:09 +0000

Disabling spotlight is a terrible idea.

Good lord. It’s the system wide file watching agent and integrated search function. I use the “search” function in the Finder maybe once a week but you _need_ it to be functional.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:55:25 +0000

Same deal here. Tried disabling spotlight a while ago, then re-enabling. It's been all messed up since then (course, it was eating up CPU cycles more frequently than I cared, so IMHO was messed up before I played with it). Don't play with Spotlight kids.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:55:25 +0000

Same deal here. Tried disabling spotlight a while ago, then re-enabling. It’s been all messed up since then (course, it was eating up CPU cycles more frequently than I cared, so IMHO was messed up before I played with it). Don’t play with Spotlight kids.

By: Dg

Dg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:08:13 +0000

That file shouldn't be zero length – on my system it's a 740k file. Want a copy back?

By: Dg

Dg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:08:13 +0000

That file shouldn’t be zero length – on my system it’s a 740k file. Want a copy back?

By: Rubin110

Rubin110 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:55:12 +0000

Kill the cancer that is Spotlight.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20...