맥 OSX 10.5에서 Spotlight 사용안하기

QuickSliver 라는 무료 프로그램이 더 좋다고 하는 사람들이 많더군요. 저도 개인적으로 퀵실버에 익숙해져 있어서 스팟라이트를 사용하지 않습니다. 더이상 인덱싱 안하도록 하는 방법이 있어서 정리해둡니다.

아래링크에서 다운 받아서 사용할 수 있습니다.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14831

혹시라도 Leopard의 SpotLight을 사용하고 싶지 않다면 아래 방법으로 하면 됩니다.

This is how to disable Spotlight completely in 10.5:
 
0) Start Terminal and enter the following commands
 
1) stop and disable the spotlight application itself:

cd /System/Library/LaunchAgents

launchctl unload com.apple.Spotlight.plist

sudo launchctl unload -w com.apple.Spotlight.plist

Just ignore the errormessage from the last command.
The first command stops the application for the current user.The second command disables for every user. The reason you get theerror is that you are effectively executing the command as root, butthe root user hasn't any running instance of Spotlight. On the otherhand, only the root user is able to disable the automatic start ofSpotlight. Thus the need for the sudo command.
 
2) stop and disable the background server:

cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

sudo launchctl unload -w com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

아래것은 꼭 하지 않아도 됩니다.
3) remove the .Spotlight-V100 directories

sudo find / -iname '.Spotlight-V100' -type d -maxdepth 3 -print0 

| xargs -0 -t -n1 sudo rm -rf

The findpart searches for the Spotlight directories and will find the one atthe system root as well as on any partitions and attached drives in/Volumes. The -print0 part is there to guard against any spaces and other special characters in filenames when executing the following rm command. The .Spotlight-V100folders are actually empty. Stopping the mds server does this, so ifyou aren't bothered by these vestiges of the process, you can ignorethis step.

[출처: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892]