<div dir="ltr">According to Fink's documentation, adding a ".build" extension to the folder name has the same effect as adding a ".noindex" extension to it, which is what they do with their build folder: <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/uguide.en.html#conf.optional" rel="noreferrer">http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/uguide.en.html#conf.optional</a><div>
<br></div><div>So that could be another option...</div><div><br><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Craig Treleaven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">At 11:02 PM +0200 6/3/14, Clemens Lang wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
I sometimes use EasyFind to search in portfiles. I noticed today<br>
that the macports folder under ${prefix}/var is no longer visible. I<br>
would guess this happened after I upgraded to MacPorts 2.3 but I<br>
can't be certain. Using the command line, I see the following:<br></div>
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Was it an intended change to hide this directory? Or a glitch on my system?<br>
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<br>
That was intentional. In specific, it's this Changelog entry:<br>
<br>
Disable Spotlight indexing on build directories, distfiles,<br>
registry, log files, archives, base source and the default ports<br>
tree. (cal in r113649)<br>
<br>
You can avoid this by manually reverting the change and touching a file<br>
named ".nohide" in the directory. See<br>
<a href="http://trac.macports.org/changeset/113649" target="_blank">http://trac.macports.org/<u></u>changeset/113649</a><br>
</div></blockquote>
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Thanks. I noticed that in the change log but didn't see how it was implemented.<br>
<br>
Based on some searching (ie no hands-on experience!), it seems that it might be simpler to create a ".metadata_never_index" file [1] inside that folder to encourage Spotlight to leave it alone. Alternatively, we could add ".noindex" to the folder name to achieve the same effect.<br>
<br>
Wouldn't one of these be a better solution?<br>
<br>
Craig<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92784/preventing-spotlight-from-indexing-files-folders" target="_blank">http://apple.stackexchange.<u></u>com/questions/92784/<u></u>preventing-spotlight-from-<u></u>indexing-files-folders</a><div class="HOEnZb">
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