Comments on: Disabling spotlight in Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/ Potentially useful stuff Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jam http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Jam Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:45:04 +0000 http://garrettreid.com/?p=17#comment-287 Wallybear, this line pasted in Terminal: sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist Didn't do anything. Spotlight is still working. Wallybear,

this line pasted in Terminal:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

Didn’t do anything. Spotlight is still working.

]]> By: ifilmmovies http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-285 ifilmmovies Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:21:55 +0000 http://garrettreid.com/?p=17#comment-285 Hey, it worked for me THANK YOU!!!! I have been trying for the last year to dump that thing........ Hey, it worked for me THANK YOU!!!!

I have been trying for the last year to dump that thing……..

]]> By: wallybear http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-260 wallybear Sun, 25 May 2008 20:41:16 +0000 http://garrettreid.com/?p=17#comment-260 No, no and no! Do not change system file permissions! To disable Spotlight in Leopard, just do the following: sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist (first line stops it, second line tells the system to disable it permanently) To reenable it: sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist (same meaning but reenabling instead of disabling) That's all No, no and no!
Do not change system file permissions! To disable Spotlight in Leopard, just do the following:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

(first line stops it, second line tells the system to disable it permanently)
To reenable it:

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

(same meaning but reenabling instead of disabling)
That’s all

]]> By: garrett http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-244 garrett Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:36:23 +0000 http://garrettreid.com/?p=17#comment-244 The easiest way to turn on indexing is to just run disk utility, as I said above ;) If you want to do it by hand, run the above commands replacing 0000 with 755. The easiest way to turn on indexing is to just run disk utility, as I said above ;)
If you want to do it by hand, run the above commands replacing 0000 with 755.

]]> By: edIT http://garrettreid.com/2007/disabling-spotlight-in-mac-osx-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-242 edIT Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:30:55 +0000 http://garrettreid.com/?p=17#comment-242 what is the code to turn indexing back on? what is the code to turn indexing back on?

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