The thing is that Spotlight, yes, can be easily disabled. If you follow all
my steps up until I start going into Terminal, in theory, that should! work,
but the reason I did the terminal work is just to absolutely beyond a doubt
be certained that it wouldn't try pulling anything stupid in the background
unknowingly, as frankly, I dono about you Missy, but, I don't like
surprises, nor over-heated logicboards, as they don't taste too good when
cooked for dinner. LOL!
Take care.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Missy Hoppe" <melis...@fuse.net>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:15 AM
Subject: RE: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution
Hi! I'd definitely be interested in learning how to disable spotlight the
safe way. Those instructions sent earlier were way
over my little head, that's for sure! I have no doubt that they'd work,
but as I read them, all I could think was: "Or... Go
back to SL until Lion is fised." If spotlight can be disabled simply and
safely in sl too, though, I'd love instructions on
that. Might that be something you'd cover in an up-coming podcast?
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:12 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution
I actually have spot light disabled in snow leppard as well. If cocktail
works with lion, I will use it to disable spot
light, it will do this by unchecking one option. I know where I keep
everything on my computer, so I have no need for
spotlight, those resources are better used for other things.
On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! This is not! going to be for
the faint at heart. It's all software-sided, you
won't be taking things apart, LOL! but it's still ***not!*** something I
advise a nuby trying to take on unless you follow
my instructions to, a, T!
Again, let's get a few things straight: I, nor any mods, nor any
members, nor Apple will be held responsible for anything
that may occur from doing th3e following process. You agree by doing this
to hold everyone on the list including myself as
well as Apple totally blameless. Though I'm not saying to do this, it's a
sure fix.
First of all, the problem at hand:
I hate saying this, but after hours of research the past few days, I've
determined that it's the mds server daemon that is
causing the over-heating of up to 2 thousand rpm on the fan and about 85
degrees celcius, which is, by the way, over twice!
gasp! Yikes! what the fan temp, should be!
I'm not totally sure why, but I tell you, it has to do with the way
Spotlight in Lion indexes things. for those who like
Lion, I'll say this: Fine! leave it on and don't do this procedure, but
I'll also say, don't come crying to me nor Apple when
your logicboard fries from overheating. I say this not to scare you, but,
realisticly, if you're anything like me, your fans
will be running about twice as fast and your smc will be about twice as
hot.
Mark, I'm sorry if I'm out of line by posting these directions, but as I
am saying again and again after again, You! do
this soly! at your own risk!
Let's get started! I'll say again, follow me to a T! If you don't, then
don't look at me if something doesn't work, or
breaks.
1. Quick with command+Q every single app you currently have opened,
obviously except for Mail, so that you can keep
reading how to do this.
2. Go to system preferences, then to Spotlight
3. On the search results tab, vo+right arrow over to the table, and
interact with it, then in the first column, uncheck
every? single one! of the boxes on each row. I know, you're going WTF!
That's gonna disable my spotlight! Yes. It will.
You're correct. %That's the only? way we're for now, until an update
comes out gonna fix this. I'm sorry, it's either this,
or have an over-heating logicboard.
4. Now, go to the exclusions tab, and vo+Space on the add button.
. In the browser window, interact with the browser, then hit
command+shift+C to go to computer.
6. locate Macintosh HD. don't! open it, just arrow to and select it. I
repeat: don't! open it, just highlight it.
7. Stop interacting with the browser, and go to the open/choose button,
or whatever it's called, can't remember exactly.
8. When told this could effect other applications from the search
feature working, just say yes/ok to add it to the
exclusions list. Trust me, you'll be fine.
9. Press command+W to close System Preferences.
O? K! Now, for the really brutal work! I know I've said this before,
but I say again, follow me, to? a, T!
1. Open your Utilities folder with command+shift+U, then command+O on
terminal.app.
2. Disable the indexing of spotlight by typing
sudo mdsutil -a -i off
Then press return.
Type your administrator password, then hit return.
Great! Now indexing should be disabled.
3. Now, unload the spotlight daemonn by typing:
sudo launchctl unload -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata/mds/plist
Then press return. You may again need to enter your password, but
probably not.
If you get a message that the daemon already is unloaded, then you're
done! If not, that should unload things, at which
point you're done, either way!
Now, if you really wanna be a smart butt, and totally make the spotllight
menu bar item totally vannish for the time being,
in terminal type the following two commands. I should add all these
commands are case sensitive, so if you messed up above,
it's ok, you didn't do any harm, just go do 'em again.
Here's the command to make the spotlight disappear. I'd not advise doing
this, but if you really? want to, here's what to
type:
sudo chmod 600
/System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
Then for the change to take effect, type:
killall SystemUIServer
And hit return.
Then quit Terminal with command+Q.
Boom! Congradulations, no more spotlight, and boom! no more hot
computer!
Once I've been notified that Apple has made an update to address this,
I'll write another e-mail post on how to undo all
this crap.
Again, I didn't say this was for the faint of heart, and if something
blew up in your face along the way, again, I didn't
say! to do this! I said, do it soly at your own risk.
Chris.
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