Spotless 1.2.1 review
DownloadSpotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight's auto indexing of volumes with the click of a button.
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Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight's auto indexing of volumes with the click of a button.
Spotlight indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer of large amounts of data. Spotless can effectively and indefinitely disable the indexing of volumes that you specify. Even if the volume is a removable device, the indexing status is remembered when you remount it - even on a different computer!
Simply adding volumes to Spotlight's privacy list does not achieve the same results as using Spotless. You may cause the Metadata Server to crash, and the volumes may be indexed the next time you mount them.
Spotless allows you to delete existing Spotlight indexes. This will free up the space used by the index files on volumes that are no longer being indexed. You may also delete indexes on volumes that are being indexed. This will cause Spotlight to reindex the volume - especially useful if your index becomes damaged.
Spotless will automatically find and delete the "mds-crash-state" file from selected volumes. The file may be created if the Metadata Server crashed or was unexpectedly closed during the indexing process. The presence of this file can prevent Spotlight from indexing the volume in the future.
Spotless allows you to see exact size the index directory on each volume.
Spotless also includes an on/off switch for Spotlight.
Please note that if you turn Spotlight off completely, searching will not be available until Spotlight is turned back on. This includes the "find" functionality of the Finder. You should only disable Spotlight if you really do not want Spotlight running on your computer. If you need to have a "find" feature, we recommend EasyFind by Devon Technologies.
Limitations:
15 second Startup Delay.
What's New:
Spotless is now a Universal Binary for Intel Mac compatibility.
Redesigned the interface to display multiple volumes at once.
Added a new feature to automatically enable or disable Spotlight content indexing for newly mounted volumes and to turn the automatic feature off for any volumes where this feature is not required. (registered users only)
Added additional hostconfig file tests to check for multiple Spotlight entries.
Fixed a bug that may have returned an error when trying to enable or disable indexing of a volume.
Fixed a bug that may have prevented the creation of the Spotless folder in the Application Support directory.
Many more code changes and improvements.
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