{"id":242,"date":"2005-05-10T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:02:51","slug":"spotlight_hardcoded_exclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/spotlight_hardcoded_exclusions.php","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight hardcoded exclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to play with the new Certificate Assistant that comes with Tiger to set up a CA but had some trouble tracking it down in the System Preferences.  So I figured I&#8217;d search for it using spotlight but could not find it.<br \/>\nTurns out it is on the drive in <i>\/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/Certificate Assistant.app<\/i> so why did it not show up in Spotlight?  Annoyingly I found out that there is a hard coded list of directories that Spotlight will exclude, this include all of \/private which contains among others \/etc and a whole long list of other stuff that Unix people might actually enjoy being able to find.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to override these defaults then read <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.info.apple.com\/webx?14@807.DkJEaCugT8Q.0@.68ae41d9\">this<\/a> discussion board entry for all the details.<br \/>\nSpotlight is becoming more a pain than it&#8217;s worth, I have considered just turning it off since it seems daily I discover a new way that it is somehow crippled in the name of sparing the poor clueless masses from seeing something they aren&#8217;t supposed to see etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to play with the new Certificate Assistant that comes with Tiger to set up a CA but had some trouble tracking it down in the System Preferences. So I figured I&#8217;d search for it using spotlight but could not find it. Turns out it is on the drive in \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/Certificate Assistant.app so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}