Spotlight Off: How I finally vibe coded the app I wanted for years.
You’ve just finished a massive transfer to an external SSD. You’re in a rush to swap cards or pack up, but macOS won’t let go. You get that dreaded alert: "The disk wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it." More than likely, that program is Spotlight. If you’ve ever worked as a Digi-tech, Photographer, DIT, or anyone handling a mountain of data, you know the eject anxiety or just want the max performance when working. The Problem with Spotlight The second you plug in a drive, macOS starts indexing every single file. It eats up your read/write performance and holds your drives hostage. While there are manual ways to stop this on a per-drive basis, and if you reformat that drive, you have to do it again. You have to do it for every single drive. It’s a repetitive, annoying task that felt like it was begging for a "set it and forget it" solution. I knew it could be automated. Introducing Spotlight Off I built Spotlight Off to be a silent a...
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