vahnx Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Spotlight continues to tax all my HDD's when I am clicking around, doing other things. At first I didn't know it was Spotlight but I clicked the Magnifying glass, and noticed as long as a search term is entered there, even when Spotlight isn't selected, it's searching. You must manually clear the text field in Spotlight to stop it from searching. Is there a way to have it just stop searching when I'm not using it, instead of me having to manually clear the field? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236623-disable-spotlight-when-not-active/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myr7 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 edit the file /etc/hostconfig with "SPOTLIGHT=-NO-" and delete /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle reboot and Spotlight is off Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236623-disable-spotlight-when-not-active/#findComment-1579831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vahnx Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 I do not want to disable spotlight, I just do not want it searching while it's not selected and text is still in the field. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236623-disable-spotlight-when-not-active/#findComment-1605324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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