Spotlight Issues On Mac

[Gnits]

I came across this video clip re Spotlight Issues.

https://youtu.be/I7oZ7PTcsbw?si=7_6O9K0-o4Itv_Fe


I am posting in the Lounge as not sure of impact on LrC and overall Mac performance.

I am sensitive to this topic as I had to disable Indexing on my Windows machine for a) It mostly never found what I wanted… even though I knew where my target was ( just wanted a quick navigation route) or b) Degraded overall computer performance.

 

[clee01l]

I'm not a fan of Spotlight either for the following reason. Spotlight works continually in the background consuming (too?) many CPU cycles. I've turned off most of the search features except files. The author of the video has a complaint about the inadequacy of Spotlight in its search feature. I've never had a problem with that.

Counting my NAS, I have (mostly) image files on 84TB of disk space attached to my Mac. Spotlight is continually searching these volumes looking for new files

 

[Zenon]

I'm not a fan of Spotlight either for the following reason. Spotlight works continually in the background consuming (too?) many CPU cycles. I've turned off most of the search features except files. The author of the video has a complaint about the inadequacy of Spotlight in its search feature. I've never had a problem with that.

Counting my NAS, I have (mostly) image files on 84TB of disk space attached to my Mac. Spotlight is continually searching these volumes looking for new files

You once posted here so I check once in a while.

 

[Swingman]

I find spotlight on my iPad is pesky and have difficulty disabling it. It hogs like mad and don’t let anything go. What would happen, if I delete it? Or is it part of the furniture?

 

[clee01l]

mds_stores is a process of several apps owned by owned by "root". If you kill it, it restarts automatically. All I've been able to do is disable most of its processes.

 

[clee01l]

Since Macs and Windows share some of the same searchindexing issues, I thought this alarming:
"Microsoft today also confirmed that it is now going to be enabling a Windows system service by default, and quite ironically, the service is known to cause performance-related issues on user PCs from time to time as it can eat up CPU cycles and memory blocks."