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10.5: Disable Spotlight completely
Authored by: amcan12 on Tue, Jun 10 2008 at 12:14AM PDT

I can't re-enable Spotlight - I disabled it successfully using instructions by BjarneDM.

I tried his instruction from section 5 as well as instruction by zbender posted last March - nothing works.

How to get Spotlight back?

10.5: Disable Spotlight completely
Authored by: stoneme on Wed, Sep 3 2008 at 6:49AM PDT

go to system/library/coreservices and click on spotlight!

Anybody know if there is a way to disable spotlight on networked imacs? the terminal command works fine for me but i don't want to have to go around 200 imacs! or create a new netinstall image.