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Spotlight slowed down dramatically

groutchmeuh

Hello, 

Spotlight is dramatically slowed down by SAV. 

It takes 30 seconds to get search results displayed vs immediate lightning fast display before or after inactivating "controle sur acces" (maybe this is online screening in English). But inactivating this screening is a pity .

I'd like to exclude the spotlight index but I can't find where it is.

Could anyone tell me a solution ? 

:1000939


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    Regular disclaimer: I'm not tech support :)

    The spotlight index is in the hidden folder .Spotlight-V100 at the top level of each writeable storage device you have mounted.

    Just to see if I could, I just did the following to exclude the spotlight folder on my main drive.  To do so, I did the following:

    1. Open Terminal.app (found in /Applicatoins/Utilities/)
    2. Type
      sudo open /.Spotlight-V100/
    3. You will be prompted for your password, which is the same one you use to change your Sophos preferences.
    4. A Finder window will open, highlighting the hidden folder.
    5. In Sophos Anti-Virus, open Preferences, select On Access Scanning, click the Excluded Items tab, and then click the lock to authenticate.
    6. Click the + icon, and an Open dialog box appears.
    7. Drag the .Spotlight-V100 folder from the finder window into the Open dialog, and it will be selected. 
    8. Click Open, and the hidden path is added to your exclusion list.
    9. Close the Finder window.

    However, I have found absolutely no difference between having it excluded and not, personally.  Maybe the slowdown is due to current spotlight indexing?  I believe that this should be slightly slowed down, as Sophos Anti-Virus will scan each file as Spotlight indexes it.  Once indexing is complete, spotlight speed should go back to normal.

    Anyone have further comments on this?

    :1000949
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    Regular disclaimer: I'm not tech support :)

    The spotlight index is in the hidden folder .Spotlight-V100 at the top level of each writeable storage device you have mounted.

    Just to see if I could, I just did the following to exclude the spotlight folder on my main drive.  To do so, I did the following:

    1. Open Terminal.app (found in /Applicatoins/Utilities/)
    2. Type
      sudo open /.Spotlight-V100/
    3. You will be prompted for your password, which is the same one you use to change your Sophos preferences.
    4. A Finder window will open, highlighting the hidden folder.
    5. In Sophos Anti-Virus, open Preferences, select On Access Scanning, click the Excluded Items tab, and then click the lock to authenticate.
    6. Click the + icon, and an Open dialog box appears.
    7. Drag the .Spotlight-V100 folder from the finder window into the Open dialog, and it will be selected. 
    8. Click Open, and the hidden path is added to your exclusion list.
    9. Close the Finder window.

    However, I have found absolutely no difference between having it excluded and not, personally.  Maybe the slowdown is due to current spotlight indexing?  I believe that this should be slightly slowed down, as Sophos Anti-Virus will scan each file as Spotlight indexes it.  Once indexing is complete, spotlight speed should go back to normal.

    Anyone have further comments on this?

    :1000949
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