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I use my mac for development, and create/delete so many (big) files that I ended up turning Spotlight off, since it was taking so much time indexing these files.

I think it would be fine if I would only allow Spotlight to index pdf and doc documents, is this possible?

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As there is no easy way (no GUI certainly) to exclude file types, your best bet might be to exclude specific directories from being indexed. Create/delete Your big files inside one directory (including subdirs) and go to Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and choose Your excluded directory (You can also drag and drop it).

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  • thanks @mateusz-szlosek, but that won't cut it: I create thousands of files on a daily basis (as a dev), and they are in many different places...
    – Renaud
    Aug 12, 2014 at 11:47
  • @Renaud Maybe you should organize your project(s) under a/some specific folder(s).
    – nightire
    Aug 13, 2014 at 17:26

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