Mastodawn

I love my Mac but stuff like this drives me up a wall. When Spotlight acts up, I want to rebuild the Spotlight index. These are the official instructions on how to do it: "Add your startup drive to the exclusions field... WAIT A FEW SECONDS... then remove it, then quit System Settings.”

HEAVEN FORBID there would be a cute little button in System Settings > Spotlight that says "Rebuild Spotlight Index” that we could push.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102321

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Matt

@tvaziri @siracusa also maybe a setting to not try to index any usb storage that’s connected, like say, an e-reader, and as a result keeping it from being ejected.

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reycat 6h ago

@matthubble @tvaziri @siracusa This weekend our little EMO Pet's SD card went bad and I replaced it. I copied all the necessary files into the new card, formated in FAT32 and... it didn't work.

It was because of .DS_Store and .Spotlight-V100, the little robot didn't know what to do with those things.