Spotlight

Spotlight is the name given to the search engine owner of files integrated in Mac OS X starting from the version Mac OS X 10.4 (known as Tiger). It is presented like very powerful and fast, since a search for ten seconds to the maximum can find a word in the name or the contents of a great quantity of files.

It functions by indexing and research also in the Métadonnées.

Spotlight indexes all the words of your emails if you use Mail.app

Spotlight uses a database SQLite. Each software publisher can develop plugins (with the extension .mdimporter) to copy in /Library/Spotlight. There exist currently plugins for:

Although similar seemingly with the software free Kat and Beagle under Linux and with the software owner Google Desktop Search under Windows, Spotlight is characterized by its complete integration in the core from Mac OS X. Thus, the modifications of the database and the indexing is launched as of the recording of a file on the disc. The rival systems require them to index the disc regularly, either at fixed hour, or during the moments of inactivity of the computer.

External bonds

  • http://www.apple.com/fr/macosx/features/spotlight/

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