Indexing?

R.R.Mac

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jun 20, 2007

• #1

Hello i have tiger on my iBook. Spotlight has just gone onto 'Indexing' mode and says it has 24 houres left. What does this mean???


Thanks

 

swiftaw

macrumors 603

• Jun 20, 2007

• #2

It is indexing all the files on your hard drive so that when you enter a search term it can pull up the results (almost) instantaneously.

 

M@lew

macrumors 68000

• Jun 21, 2007

• #3

Yup, it means that it's going through your HD and making a list of every file so you can recall them faster next time you use Spotlight.

 

M

Millwood

macrumors regular

• Jun 21, 2007

• #4

If you never use spotlight, it's sort of a waste of time to have it index everything in your harddrive.

So do what I did, open the system preferences - spotlight - privacy tab - drag your entire harddrive icon into it.

That will stop it from not indexing your harddrive, unless you want it to index everything 😉