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Questions about Spotlight, a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's OS X and iOS operating system.
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Is "All My Files" slow because of my git and svn repos?
It would seem that have too many files in Spotlight does indeed slow down "All My Files" in finder. … Upon removing my ~/Sites folder from spotlight which contains only 15GB of data, but more than half of the 500,000 files Spotlight was indexing "All my Files" came up nearly instantly again. …
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Is "All My Files" slow because of my git and svn repos?
Side note: wondeirng if Spotlight is trying to index all those git/svn files as well... is there a way to tell spotlight to ignore folders by name? (ie. ignore .git everywhere... …