MacRumors Forums - View Single Post - Spotlight 'developer' and 'Web searches' can't be disabled?
december 2011 by kostas
Works great. UPDATE: NOT.
1. plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
2. <dict>
<key>enabled</key>
<false/>
<key>name</key>
<string>SOURCE</string>
</dict>
3. plutil -convert binary1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
spotlight
1. plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
2. <dict>
<key>enabled</key>
<false/>
<key>name</key>
<string>SOURCE</string>
</dict>
3. plutil -convert binary1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
december 2011 by kostas
My Mac & I: OS X Lion and spotlight
december 2011 by kostas
Type in the following 2 commands:
1. sudo mdutil -E /
2. sudo mdutil -i on /
spotlight
1. sudo mdutil -E /
2. sudo mdutil -i on /
december 2011 by kostas
Apple - Support - Discussions - Poisoned File that Clobbers Spotlight ...
october 2009 by kostas
The trick that did it for me was adding the problematic volume to the Privacy pane and then removing it. This thread contains some good information on how Spotlight works. Worth noting: future-dated files may cause indexing problems.
spotlight
october 2009 by kostas