Stop the indexing of hd?

[John Stalberg]

Does anyone know how get rid of OS 9´s automatic indexing of the hard drives. Most irritating when it happens during a recording.

Ehhh, sorry...stop...wait a minute, the computer have to index here..ehh..can you repeat that part please [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

/John Stalberg

[Avid]

Not sure if it is any different on earlier versions of Sherlock, but in OS 9.1:

Open Sherlock 2 (Command F on the desktop or in the Finder)

In the menu bar, under Find, Index Volumes (or Command L in Sherlock)

You probably can do it just by unchecking the box under Use Schedule next to your hard drive or other storage device, but I did it this way:

Click on the Schedule button, and uncheck all of the days of the week.

[John Stalberg]

Thanks [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

John Stalberg

[PeeTee]

You can also remove the File Indexing extensions from your Extensions folder.

[John Stalberg]

Thanks to you too. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

/j

[Lee Blaske]

FWIW, the indexing screen came up for me last night while I was playing back a 64 track session with video, and it kept right on playing.

Probably a good idea to disable it, but it evidently is not that intrusive.

Lee Blaske

[MattiMattMatt]

Yayyyy!!!

I stopped it on mine too. For some reason, I thought this might not be defeatable.

-M.M.M.

[John Stalberg]

It happened during a recording and since I didn´t know if it would cause any problem I stopped. I will turn it off. I use 9.2.1

[tubajay]

You know what?

This damn indexing has been my nemesis for months. I thank you all for this tidbit!! I've had this interrupt sessions doing layback to DAT/MD thru Jam - shuts down, stops playback, so thanks digi and PeeTee!

Jay
PlugHead Productions

[electrok]

you can just change the time it indexes to when your very unlikely to be using your system. I don't know many musicians who want to record at say 6 am
electrk