Indexing, whats the point?

dmband0026dmband0026
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Indexing my hard drive. Why should I do it? How much space does an idex take up? How often should I do it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Indexing is for the find by content aspect of Finder search. The Mac OS help can give you more details.
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    The only part of my drive I index is my "iChats" folder. I log all of my iChats, and by indexing them, I can use the 'find' function to search for things that were said in those conversations. It's worked great.



    I'm not really sure how much space they take up, but I remember back in OS 8.5/9 if you indexed the whole drive it could easily go beyond 100MB.
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