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10.5: Disable Spotlight completely
Authored by: mattthew on Tue, Apr 7 2009 at 9:23PM PDT
Though I don't like spotlight and I don't want it in my menu bar, I had to re-enable it because Microsoft Entourage's search function is build on spotlight and I need to be able to search my emails.

I found that the above commands worked to re-enable it, however when I first tried to run them, I go the error message "dubious ownership". After some search around, I figured that when I moved the file from the original directories, the ownership got changed. To fix it, I had to enter the command:

sudo chown root:wheel [file path]



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