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jbrown

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 7, 2002
996
4
London
Does the Spotlight indexing create a mega big file ( hidden I guess ) ike the old OS 9 Sherlock did? If so - where does it live?

And what is in it / how does it work.

cheers
 

iMeowbot

macrumors G3
Aug 30, 2003
8,634
0
jbrown said:
Does the Spotlight indexing create a mega big file ( hidden I guess ) ike the old OS 9 Sherlock did? If so - where does it live?
There is a hidden directory called .Spotlight-V100 at the top of each volume containing several files that store and control it all. Yes, the files are big.
And what is in it /
There's not very much exciting in there. There are indexes for metadata and file contents, and some property lists you can use to control what gets indexed.
how does it work.
It's wired right into the OS. When something on the disk changes, a helper process is told to update the index.
 

Chundles

macrumors G5
Jul 4, 2005
12,037
493
jbrown said:
Does the Spotlight indexing create a mega big file ( hidden I guess ) ike the old OS 9 Sherlock did? If so - where does it live?

And what is in it / how does it work.

cheers

No I don't think it does.
 
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