Removing spotlight

This is a bit of code to remove spotlight and it's index if you care to try.

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Originally Posted by In the Terminal, do this:

sudo su

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Originally Posted by Then put this in

chmod 0000 /Library/Spotlight
chmod 0000 /System/Library/Spotlight
chmod 0000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle
chmod 0000 /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane
chmod 0000 /System/Library/Services/Spotlight.service
chmod 0000 /System/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items/SpotlightCM.plugin
chmod 0000 /System/Library/StartupItems/Metadata
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/mdimport
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/mdcheckschema
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/mdfind
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/mdls
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/mdutil
chmod 0000 /usr/bin/md

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Originally Posted by After a reboot, open a new Terminal and do sudo su to make a root shell, then:

rm -r /.Spotlight-V100
rm -r /private/var/tmp/mds
exit

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Then to re-enable spotlight you repair permissions. My laptop's battery is dead and every time I start up my computer it would start re-indexing so I decided to stop it.