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I still don't understand Spotlight
When performing an erase destination/backup all files clone:
1) Why does the Spotlight indicator flash for a few minutes at the beginning of the cloning? 2) Why does the destination volume apparently get re-indexed (Spotlight and destination disk activity) after the clone? Wouldn't the destination volume get the Spotlight info from the target copied to it...? 10.4.7 PPC SuperDuper! 2.1.3 |
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Try adding the destination drive into the Spotlight Preference Pane's "Privacy" tab. Timmy.
(And, no -- copying the spotlight index doesn't make sense, because it's invalid on a different device.)
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So, the recommened procedure for cloning under 10.4.x is to add the destination drive to the Spotlight provacy tab?
The users guide doesn't seem to mention Spotlight at all... |
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If you don't want the drive indexed, yes. It's not mentioned because it's basically transparent: you handle the drive the way you would any other volume.
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I was confused about this, because I don't use the Privacy tab; I use mdutil to turn off indexing on all my disks. However, when I do that, SuperDuper always turns on indexing for the target volume.
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Yeah -- you definitely do not want to use mdutil. While that was necessary pre-10.4.3 (there were bugs in Privacy), they fixed 'em months ago.
Using Privacy will ensure that they're not indexed and not searched, which is what you really want.
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Once you have added the name to the Privacy Tab, I believe it is removed by the OS when you erase that volume, so you have to remember to re-add the name in that case. At least that was my experience on my 500MHz PB running 10.4.8 and Superduper 2.1.3. Thanks for the great software. |
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Understood, of course. It's unfortunate that many things about OSX aren't documented at all by Apple, and I have to tread a fine line between turning the SuperDuper! User's Guide into a "Missing Manual" for OSX and documentation for our product!
But, I'll see what I can do in the future.
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