backup Spotlight index file - where is it?
My apologies, if I overlooked a topic addressing this issue.
I'd like to backup the Spotlight index file because I need to do a clean install of a system. Spotlight has indexed the external drive which is very large. I've found that Spotlight re-indexes this drive every time OS X is reinstalled. I've had some computer problems that have required multiple re-installs. Where is this index file located and can I back it up and copy it back so that I'm not looking at several hours of re-indexing a drive?
I'd like to backup the Spotlight index file because I need to do a clean install of a system. Spotlight has indexed the external drive which is very large. I've found that Spotlight re-indexes this drive every time OS X is reinstalled. I've had some computer problems that have required multiple re-installs. Where is this index file located and can I back it up and copy it back so that I'm not looking at several hours of re-indexing a drive?
eMac 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 2 GB ram, Tiger 10.4.11
