Speeding Up Spotlight Searches

As much as I love Spotlight for the time it saves me every day, it definitely gets slower as the hard drive fills up. The trick is to add folders and directories to be excluded from searches and indexing, but the problem is to know exactly which to choose.

Go to System Preferences => Spotlight, and under the Privacy tab, click the plus button and then choose the user/Library/ directory to be excluded form the search and indexing functions.

Immediately after you’ll notice a remarkable improvement in speed, and that goes for the whole system since lots of apps write temporary files to that directory and Spotlight is always working on indexing those. No mortal need to know the content of those files, anyway, so off ye go!