[DM-MUG] Indexing of the Hard Drive

[Victoria L. Herring]

It has been so long since I used Panther I can't recall...but in 
Tiger, there is Spotlight which, once the drive is indexed, allows 
you to quickly find almost anything.  I find it incredibly easy== 
there is also free Quicksilver which will index and find things, but 
I use it mainly as a launcher, not searcher.  There are other search 
tools, some $ and some free, which do what Spotlight does.

In any event, it may take time but then once it's done if you wanted 
to find something you named "silver" you could find it in 2-3 
keystrokes almost instantaneously.  You can also find by content and 
date and type, etc.



>	I was wondering about indexing of the hard drive. I have not 
>yet done this on my Mac and I was wondering if I should do that and 
>if so what does it do? About how long will it take and will this 
>help in speeding up the Mac?
>	I have a G-4 iMac, 1.25 GHZ PowerPC Processor with 1.5GB of 
>memory and the hard drive is 80 GBs. I am still learning about this 
>OS and hardware platform and I am running Panther 10.3.9. Thank you 
>for taking the time to answer my questions.

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