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Well the scanning is supposed to be local. It's not uploading your photos or anything. You can turn it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy. Or go
by sp332 4y ago
Well the scanning is supposed to be local. It's not uploading your photos or anything. You can turn it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy. Or go further and remove Spotlight https://cleanmymac.com/faq/how-to-turn-off-spotlight-search-on-mac https://cleanmymac.com/faq/how-to-turn-off-spotlight-search-... Not positive this works on the latest hardware.
- jbverschoor 4y agoWhich results in that NOTHING works anymore. File search, email search. Literally nothing will work anymore.
- sp332 4y agoYes, good disclaimer. That's what happens when you turn off local scanning.
- atkailash 4y ago
- daneel_w 4y ago"NOTHING, literally nothing works anymore" is an alarmist exaggeration, even if you would do the ham-fisted thing of adding your entire home directory to Spotlight's exclusion list. The sane and logical option is to add only your Pictures directory (or whatever folders you keep images in) to the exclusion list.
- jbverschoor 4y agoNo it's not, because then you can't use any search on Pictures.
- Maursault 4y ago/usr/bin/locate and /usr/bin/find will still work. >$ man locate >$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist >$ locate brain >$ man find >$ find [this directory] [criteria and action] >$ find . -name "brain" -print