On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's quite possible that the problem with his son's machine Spotlight being > foo - totally re-building the index each time the drive is mounted.
The easiest way that occurs to me ... (possibly there are easier ways?) ... to check if Spotlight is causing this problem is to turn off Spotlight indexing for those drives. Open Spotlight in System Preferences and add the external drives to the "Privacy" tab. That should turn off indexing for those drives. (The drives will of course need to be attached to the machine so that they can been "seen" by OS X in order to exclude from indexing). Since your son's machine is using Snow Leopard I would hope it's not a case of Spotlight being fooed up. But WTHDIK? -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
