Upgrade to Lion

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Thu May 31 19:07:33 EDT 2012


Richard, Peter,

Thank you for your excellent insights, you are both far more knowledgeable
in this area than I, so I appreciate learning from you.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

>
> I was hoping you had found something to explain some of my Lion issues in
> your comment about excluding the Time Machine backup disk from Spotlight
> but when I look at my spotlight preferences, the backup drive is listed
> there as being excluded, just as it was before upgrading to Lion.  Maybe
> I'm misunderstanding what you said?
>
> My understanding is that if you upgraded Lion and your previous set up had
your TimeMachine excluded it will still be listed in the Spotlight
Preference Pane under Privacy, BUT the only thing to be excluded is
anything that is NOT part of the TimeMachine backup.

This might help explain:

http://www.mikesel.info/disable-spotlight/

The first reader comment suggest using the Preference Pane and then it is
explained why that doesn't work.

Of interest in later comments is the mention that if you do forcibly
disable Spotlight then things like the Mac App Store will stop working
because it uses Spotlight to keep track of updates.

I'm not suggesting I know this to be fact, I'm just passing on what I'm
finding on the net.

HTH



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