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Improve your Mac’s speed by adjusting Spotlight’s settings

  • November 15, 2021
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On any Mac, you can experience odd slowdowns when copying or acting on a large number of files, such as duplicating a folder with many items in it, cloning a drive, or testing drive performance. That’s because Spotlight never sleeps. It’s constantly looking for modified or new files to index.

Spotlight’s “polling” can have a significant performance toll. For example, cloning speed might be half the rate you expect or even lower. But you can tell Spotlight to keep its hands off while performing operations that it might otherwise slow down. The secret is the Spotlight preference pane’s Privacy view (System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy).

 

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@Ssherjj I wonder if this will speed up your old Mac? It might be worth a try. :wink:


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ProTruckDriver wrote:

@Ssherjj I wonder if this will speed up your old Mac? It might be worth a try. :wink:

Thanks Dave   it's worth a shot! I haven't been on my Mac for months...😳 But I'll let you know if it works or not ...🙃