After I upgraded to the new version of Mac OS X, release Tiger, yesterday Spotlight was updating its index very often. It stayed unresponsive for long durations.

A gut feeling, that subconcious analyzer routine which I kept back from my PC-days, told me that it might be related to my use of File Vault which encrypts all files in your home folder. My theory was that it confused Spotlight that the files kept on changing or better said the way the files were encrypted. But I couldn't be sure as I wasn't aware of the inner workings of File Vault.

To make a long story short; I switched of File Vault, rebooted and voila! Spotlight is not indexing as often and the waits are non-existent.

Now how would I tell Apple about this bug? They should have really advertised a way to give feedback. If anyone knows how to, please do inform me because this must be happening to others.

If only Google would have a more intelligent way of indexing pages. I have always found their ranking algorithm flawed. Information that I might be looking for that might be "out there" might not be popular but very relevant to my search-quest nonetheless.

But anyways; with things the way they are, I will most probably never show up on a Google search result even with all the good keywords I have on my page and the fact that it would be highly relevant AND maybe crucial for some other Mac users to find this blog entry.

Stop ranting Bjoern, do it better. Allright, I'll shut up. Back into the real world. There's wonderful weather out there which is a not so common thing in Brussels, Belgium.