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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Sizing and Setting Up Your Mac Boot Drive Page 2: Installing a Just-Right Mac System Page 3: Separate Data from System and Applications Page 4: High Performance Mac Configuration Page 5: Testing Mac Memory and Drives Page 6: Choosing the Right Mouse Page 7: Boot With the 64-bit Kernel Page 8: Set Finder Preferences Page 9: System Preferences (General) Page 10: Unhide your Library Folder Page 11: Set a Two-button Mouse Page 12: Keyboard Shortcuts Page 13: Disable the Caps Lock key Page 14: Declutter the Dock Page 15: Turn Off iTunesHelper Page 16: Exclude Items from Spotlight Page 17: Apple Mail Unread Mailbox Setup Page 18: Time Machine for Always-on Backup Page 19: Relocating the Home Directory Off the Boot Drive Page 20: Relocating Mail Off the Boot Drive Page 21: Relocating Documents Folder Off the Boot Drive Page 22: Relocating iTunes and iPhoto Libraries

Exclude Items from Spotlight

Exclude anything you don’t want indexed (saves time and annoyance).

See Optimizing Spotlight.

The last thing I want is for Spotlight (“mds”) to interfere with my work by indexing my fast Scratch volume, my Time Machine backup slowed to a crawl, etc. Exclude such things.