Jendker Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) Hi all! This is my first post on the forum as the new Alfred user. Since I made a switch from Spotlight I wanted to disable the Spotlight indexing to save the energy and some disc space. To this end I went to Spotlight settings -> Privacy -> Added whole disk to remove the whole cache -> Removed it from selection (as described here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716) -> Went back to 'Search results' tab -> Unchecked all But still after the last MacOS update I could see high energy usage of Spotlight. Are there any recommended steps to disable Spotlight altogether? Edited December 15, 2020 by Jendker Link to comment
Tsunami Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Alfred uses the Spotlight index to find your files, so I'm not sure why you would want to disable it. Jendker 1 Link to comment
Jendker Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) Oh, I see, didn't know that. Should I then leave all the ticks in settings active? Or does it just change the results and not the indexing behavior? Edited December 15, 2020 by Jendker Link to comment
Tsunami Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Yes, and remove your disk from the Privacy tab. Spotlight will probably have to reindex all your files again, which will temporarily cause high energy usage. Jendker 1 Link to comment
Jendker Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 Ok, I have checked all the fields and reindexing now. Thanks! Link to comment
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