slax0r Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Recently I installed Kalyway and for the most part it's been a resounding success. I have a 750gb SATA drive running XP and on which just about all of my files are stored. My Kalyway install I put on an old 120gb IDE. I kept them separate at first but I got more daring and now I've got the NTFS drive mounted in Leopard. The NTFS drive isn't indexed, though, and so Spotlight doesn't know about it. I've seen a few tutorials on how to turn on indexing, but I'm wondering if there would be any negative effects to the drive. Would it corrupt the data, would it stop it from booting, etc. Does anyone have any experience with this and can someone tell me if this is safe to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97217-spotlight/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I'm not a Spotlight expert but I would assume that the Spotlight program simply generates a reverse search index for the target directories and does not manipulate the files in any way. Thus file corruption should not be an issue. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97217-spotlight/#findComment-694415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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