Does anyone know how much disk space indexing uses? Obviously this depends on how many files you have; I am looking for some rough estimate in kB/file or something.
Does anyone know how much disk space indexing uses? Obviously this depends on how many files you have; I am looking for some rough estimate in kB/file or something.
On one of the DPs I had, the index for my 400GB of data was around 80MB. Nothing to worry about.
On one of the DPs I had, the index for my 400GB of data was around 80MB. Nothing to worry about.
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Actually, 80 MB is 0.02% of 400 GB. 3 orders of magnitude off.
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Spotlight has a defined set of file types that it indexes, so it only indexes files that will be useful to searchers. It doesn't just index any old file. So, out of a directory containing UT2K4, it would likely get nothing of interest. Perhaps a readme file, but nothing else.
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Originally posted by JBL
Does anyone know how much disk space indexing uses? Obviously this depends on how many files you have; I am looking for some rough estimate in kB/file or something.
On one of the DPs I had, the index for my 400GB of data was around 80MB. Nothing to worry about.
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Dan
Originally posted by SYN
On one of the DPs I had, the index for my 400GB of data was around 80MB. Nothing to worry about.
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Originally posted by Placebo
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Actually, 80 MB is 0.02% of 400 GB. 3 orders of magnitude off.
Originally posted by vas
Actually, 80 MB is 0.02% of 400 GB. 3 orders of magnitude off.
Originally posted by Placebo
Are you kidding, that's freaking huge! It's like an automatic 20% taken from your harddrive!
I assume, however, that such applies the most to text documents and not the real "big" files such as images and such. And I assume there's some way of excluding a folder from Spotlight searching (I have a 12GB Unreal Tournament 2004 folder which would have no use being indexed)
Spotlight has a defined set of file types that it indexes, so it only indexes files that will be useful to searchers. It doesn't just index any old file. So, out of a directory containing UT2K4, it would likely get nothing of interest. Perhaps a readme file, but nothing else.
You must if you know how large it is.
help me out here.
thanks