Purpose of ".fseventsd" and ".Spotlight-V100" folders?

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Purpose of ".fseventsd" and ".Spotlight-V100" folders?

These hidden folders are in my SD card, but what's their purpose?
Some one told me earlier that the .Spotlight-V100 folder had something to do the Spotlight feature of a Mac and the way it indexes the SD card, but as for the other folder I have no idea what it's purpose is.

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Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 15, 2009 3:02 PM

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Answer 1

iBod

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Jan 15, 2009 3:07 PM in response to Addicting_Snapple

Hi,

.fseventsd is related to Spotlight as well. This article has more information about FSEvents:

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/7

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Answer 2

Jan 15, 2009 3:08 PM in response to Addicting_Snapple

The folder contains Spotlight metadata info required for the feature to work.

fseventsd is a File SYstem Events notification daemon that notifies Spotlight of changes in the file system.

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