This prevents Spotlight from indexing these system folders. He told me it is apples wishes to keep system files from appearing to the common user who might type in a phrase that could pull up system files that a less experienced user could harmfully alter. "There is also a noted issue about spotlight performance he brought up. Anything spotlight has indexed, will be reindexed every time file is modified. With how often system is changing it's files, caches, installing updates, etc. Image spotlight spiking CPU constantly for this. A user can force an index of system folders using the mdimport command, but it is not recommended at all. However, it still follows it's privacy defaults so still ignores system folders." He did inform me that Spotlight reverts to filename/catalog b-tree search if an index isn't present. MacFixIt reader Steve Sussmann corroborates and further describes the issue: Mail.app 2.0: Problems with stored mail Yesterday we noted an issue in Mail.app 2.0 (running under Mac OS X 10.4.x) where the application becomes unresponsive (displays the spinning beach ball status indicator indefinitely) or exhibits other issues when the user attempts to view mail messages from a non-IMAP account (POP, etc.). "I, too, had problems with seeing mail in my various mailboxes since upgrading to 10.4.1. In some cases, clicking on one of the headers in the mailbox ('From,' 'Sent,' 'Attachment,' etc.( would sometimes show the mail. My Yahoo! mail sub-inbox would show mail, but it wouldn't show up in the general inbox." However in my largest mailboxes, it would not. "I have been having big problems with Mail after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 (first 10.4, then 10.4.1) on my Aluminum PowerBook G4.
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