I love spotlight.
But I hate it too.
When it's working, it's fantastic and helpful.
When it's broken it's a disaster.
I have had Spotlight indexing woes as long as I can remember. But this new quirk is driving me mad.
I have a Mac Pro 8-Core 2.8 10gb ram and about 2TB of space. On one of the volumes is a backup (carbon coby) of my leopard install with just my apps. Disaster relief partition. On another I have a bootable (they do both boot) copy of Leopard that is migrated from my MBP.
Now, I know there is not a good reason to have 3 installs on the same machine but, it's saved me in very ugly situations several times. The thing is, on my MBP I never used spotlight, indexing was broken beyond any easy fix so only the internal hd was indexed and I used locate or easyfind.
Now I'm running into the strangest issue. After indexing spotlight seems to have found the other applications folders and is now associating files in finder with multiple versions of my apps.
It's made it difficult to know if I'm using the right version (they are all the same v# but they are on different drives so I really only want to run the Photoshop that's on my Boot drive and I don't even want the others to be recognized although it would still be nice to find them through spotlight.
Has anyone had a similar issue?
But I hate it too.
When it's working, it's fantastic and helpful.
When it's broken it's a disaster.
I have had Spotlight indexing woes as long as I can remember. But this new quirk is driving me mad.
I have a Mac Pro 8-Core 2.8 10gb ram and about 2TB of space. On one of the volumes is a backup (carbon coby) of my leopard install with just my apps. Disaster relief partition. On another I have a bootable (they do both boot) copy of Leopard that is migrated from my MBP.
Now, I know there is not a good reason to have 3 installs on the same machine but, it's saved me in very ugly situations several times. The thing is, on my MBP I never used spotlight, indexing was broken beyond any easy fix so only the internal hd was indexed and I used locate or easyfind.
Now I'm running into the strangest issue. After indexing spotlight seems to have found the other applications folders and is now associating files in finder with multiple versions of my apps.
It's made it difficult to know if I'm using the right version (they are all the same v# but they are on different drives so I really only want to run the Photoshop that's on my Boot drive and I don't even want the others to be recognized although it would still be nice to find them through spotlight.
Has anyone had a similar issue?