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Journaling has nothing to do with Spotlight. Journaling is a way to prevent corruption on the hard disk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalingfilesystem

Spotlight indexes files. Indexing and journaling are not equivalent terms.

And it's not HFX, it's HFS. In disk utility, it shows up as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HierarchicalFileSystem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus

Spotlight will index a drive even if it's formatted as "Mac OS Extended" without the "(Journaled)". The only way Spotlight won't index a drive is if you put it in the privacy tab on the Spotlight preference pane.

I mention Spotlight because it does cause a lot of temp files and problems for CS2. Are you in some way trying to clarify something though?

Yes, I was correcting what Sebastian said. He made the connection between Spotlight and Journaling, where there is no connection to be had.

To clear up any confusion from other users reading this thread, I felt it necessary to clear that up. I actually wasn't even responding to you, though I agree that Spotlight does slow the system down during initial indexing.

Oops - I missed that he had 2 replies together up there, and missed the hfsx part ;-(

Heck, you need Spot-less just to get back control of a system some days!