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Is there any way to make Mac OS X Spotlight only index the file names and not the contents?
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Mar 15, 20263336 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I do understand that the point of Spotlight is to look inside files, but it also returns file name matches, and that's what I need most of the time. Besides, Spotlight is running so absurdly slow on my system (Snow Leopard on the iMac '08), it's just unusable. I downloaded Canary and Spotlight wasn…
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As far as I know, Spotlight is hardcoded to work this way. Most people in your situation simply disable spotlight, and use an alternative, like EasyFind. If this is too drastic, you may want to clear out Spotlight's file at the root of your drive to…
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