Topic : using spotlight to find previous system

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baltwo


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From: San Diego, CA
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Re: using spotlight to find previous system
Posted: Oct 30, 2007 11:54 PM   in response to: Andre John Mas
 

It isn't, but appears that the info might be buried in others or that mds now just indexes everything.

$ sudo cat /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/VolumeConfig.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>8F6666A3-5865-460E-891F-18E28F3194DB</key>
<dict>
<key>partialPath</key>
<string></string>
<key>policySearch</key>
<integer>3</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

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baltwo


Posts: 23,268
From: San Diego, CA
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Re: using spotlight to find previous system
Posted: Oct 31, 2007 12:03 AM   in response to: thenotoriousxis
 

This is the default in early Leopard and Tiger.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EXCLUDE</key>
<array/>
<key>INCLUDE</key>
<array/>
<key>NOTE</key>
<string>Specify paths to include or exclude, preceeding rules which target user-homes with ~/</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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