In the hunt for a leaner meaner faster booting mac i decided to disable spotlight last week. I use quicksilver for launching apps so it seemed like a good idea...

However I have now discovered that both time machine and finders search rely on it, so not really sure if its worth it... might just do it before each gig...

here's how to do it on leopard but to edit those files open them with a text editor not the default browsery thing... but be careful! This is not like free online bingo where things are straight forward and simple.

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