Comments on: Scripts Part 5: New Spotlight Disabler http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html Big, Honkin' Systems Stuff Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:15:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: systemsboy http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-210 systemsboy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:22:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-210 Um, as per my front page, all my scripts got deleted when I moved.<br/>http://systemsboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-going-on.html<br/><br/>I don't know when I'll be able to get them back online. Please bear with me during the interim.<br/><br/>Thanks!<br/><br/>-systemsboy Um, as per my front page, all my scripts got deleted when I moved.
http://systemsboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-going-on.html

I don’t know when I’ll be able to get them back online. Please bear with me during the interim.

Thanks!

-systemsboy

]]> By: Caleban http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-209 Caleban Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:46:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-209 They don't work for me either. I tested with Safari and Camino.<br/><br/>Earthlink Page Not Found<br/><br/>HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?<br/><br/>Sorry. It looks like there isn’t a page on our website at the address you requested (or it may be temporarily unavailable).<br/>SUGGESTIONS...<br/><br/> * Check your typing if you manually entered the URL<br/> * Enter 1 or more keywords in the Google search box above They don’t work for me either. I tested with Safari and Camino.

Earthlink Page Not Found

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

Sorry. It looks like there isn’t a page on our website at the address you requested (or it may be temporarily unavailable).
SUGGESTIONS…

* Check your typing if you manually entered the URL
* Enter 1 or more keywords in the Google search box above

]]> By: systemsboy http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-208 systemsboy Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:56:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-208 x-user,<br /><br />They seem to work fine for me. I've tested them in Firefox, Camino and Safari. Try right-clicking (or control-clicking) the .zip file and saving it to your computer ("Save Link As..." or "Download Link Target..." or "Download Linked File..." respectively).<br /><br />Or if you can let me know what happens when you click these links that might help me figure out the problem. But right now I can't reproduce it. It works fine for me. So I can't really find a solution.<br /><br />-systemsboy x-user,

They seem to work fine for me. I’ve tested them in Firefox, Camino and Safari. Try right-clicking (or control-clicking) the .zip file and saving it to your computer (“Save Link As…” or “Download Link Target…” or “Download Linked File…” respectively).

Or if you can let me know what happens when you click these links that might help me figure out the problem. But right now I can’t reproduce it. It works fine for me. So I can’t really find a solution.

-systemsboy

]]> By: X-User http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-207 X-User Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:09:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-207 The link to both the zip file and the .command file appear to be broken.<br /><br />Could you please, please fix this?!<br />Thanks again for this (hopefully) great script! The link to both the zip file and the .command file appear to be broken.

Could you please, please fix this?!
Thanks again for this (hopefully) great script!

]]> By: systemsboy http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-206 systemsboy Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:31:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-206 Sounds to me like something's wrong with your system. Or that's my best guess. Especially with regards to that error message. That shouldn't happen. When I run the script it behaves as it should and certainly does not disable searching altogether. Perhaps when you moved Spotlight from CoreServices something got hosed? Really don't know.<br /><br />Sorry.<br /><br />-systemsboy Sounds to me like something’s wrong with your system. Or that’s my best guess. Especially with regards to that error message. That shouldn’t happen. When I run the script it behaves as it should and certainly does not disable searching altogether. Perhaps when you moved Spotlight from CoreServices something got hosed? Really don’t know.

Sorry.

-systemsboy

]]> By: Anonymous http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-205 Anonymous Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:46:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-205 I've tried this script, but it seems to disable all seaching; the script gave me an error message that it couldn't set the indexing status for a volume, regardless of whether I opted to disable for a single volume or all volumes. Iit can't even find a document on my Desktop, even though I gave it the exact name and location.<br /><br />So I don't see how this is an improvement over just removing Spotlight from the /System/Library/CoreServices folder.<br /><br />Ideas or suggestions? I’ve tried this script, but it seems to disable all seaching; the script gave me an error message that it couldn’t set the indexing status for a volume, regardless of whether I opted to disable for a single volume or all volumes. Iit can’t even find a document on my Desktop, even though I gave it the exact name and location.

So I don’t see how this is an improvement over just removing Spotlight from the /System/Library/CoreServices folder.

Ideas or suggestions?

]]> By: systemsboy http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-204 systemsboy Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:47:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-204 Richard,<br /><br />It looks like you're applying mdutil to the /Volumes folder. You need to apply mdutil to a specific volume listed within that folder, like so:<br /><br />mdutil -i on /Volumes/Your_Volume<br /><br />Or, you can apply mdutil to all the volumes in /Volumes, using a wildcard (*), as I do in one part of my script:<br /><br />mdutil -i on /Volumes/*<br /><br />To get the Spotlight status of all mounted volumes, run this:<br /><br />mdutil -s on /Volumes/*<br /><br />It may also help to erase (and subsequently rebuild by running the above commands) the Spotlight index:<br /><br />mdutil -E /Volumes/*<br /><br />And of course you need to do all this as root, or with sudo, which it looks like you're doing.<br /><br />Hope that helps.<br /><br />-systemsboy Richard,

It looks like you’re applying mdutil to the /Volumes folder. You need to apply mdutil to a specific volume listed within that folder, like so:

mdutil -i on /Volumes/Your_Volume

Or, you can apply mdutil to all the volumes in /Volumes, using a wildcard (*), as I do in one part of my script:

mdutil -i on /Volumes/*

To get the Spotlight status of all mounted volumes, run this:

mdutil -s on /Volumes/*

It may also help to erase (and subsequently rebuild by running the above commands) the Spotlight index:

mdutil -E /Volumes/*

And of course you need to do all this as root, or with sudo, which it looks like you’re doing.

Hope that helps.

-systemsboy

]]> By: Anonymous http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler.html/comment-page-1#comment-203 Anonymous Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:03:00 +0000 http://systemsboy.com/2006/03/scripts-part-5-new-spotlight-disabler/#comment-203 Argh!<br /><br />How about what to do when MDUTIL does not work? My spotlight stopped working, and when I try to manually turn it on I get:<br /><br />localhost:/ root# mdutil -i on /Volumes/<br />/Volumes/:<br /> Could not set indexing status for volume.<br /><br />I erased the .Spotlight folder, and ran permissions fix (nothing fixed). My problem must be something deeper?<br /><br />RIch<br />Richard.Cooke at turnkeyautomation.net Argh!

How about what to do when MDUTIL does not work? My spotlight stopped working, and when I try to manually turn it on I get:

localhost:/ root# mdutil -i on /Volumes/
/Volumes/:
Could not set indexing status for volume.

I erased the .Spotlight folder, and ran permissions fix (nothing fixed). My problem must be something deeper?

RIch
Richard.Cooke at turnkeyautomation.net

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