![]() These filters include searching inside compressed archives, not ignoring invisible files and folders, ignoring case and much more. This thankfully is not the case, with developers from DEVONtechnologies managing to tract very intuitive dashboard that directly on its surface showcases the most commonly used filtering tools that can help anyone to easily discover anything they are searching for. Built to be small, fast and powerful, EasyFind does not require indexing and can search for files and folders not only by their name but also by advanced Boolean operators, wildcards and phrases.Īll of this would be irrelevant if the user interface of EasyFind for Mac was unfriendly and unsuited to be used by anyone from novices to professionals. …,even a running backup shouldn’t be a problem nowadays on a smart setup,….EasyFind is a desktop search engine with features that are not present in its competitors. Once I was a protools evangelist, but now I’m just disappointed and switched to another DAW. The best thing would be if customer would buy avid’s own protools appliance(hardware+software) I’m pretty sure if you consider all support articles from avid you wouldn’t be able to use anything(including protool) or get support at all. Maybe that could be a reason why such stupid support articles exists -> do nothing on your computer except using protools ?!?! and if you’ve once opened safari you computer isn’t supported anymore,… My experience shows that audio technicans are not always great in hacking/managing computers and vice versa. If indexing is really causing any issues I would suggest to overthink using protools or even a computer for recording. Seems to me nothing but just another stumbling block on support cases. See also: ProTools + H.264 video = Problem, ProTools Sync: The Short Video Problem Side note: in my opinion Finder and Spotlight have become less and less useful for finding files. If you want more tips for making your Mac great for audio work, be sure to read OSX Optimization for Audio by Jon Tidey ( It is a great companion article to this one whether you use ProTools or something else. He also advised that Spotlight indexing, Time Machine and much more can be managed using Cocktail. See the full Avid document made an excellent point about the example shown above: do not disable indexing for the system drive. ![]() You wouldn’t want to record to your system drive either. Please note that you wouldn’t want to actually prevent indexing of your system drive as shown here this is merely for example. Continue this process with any/all record drives. You will see the selected drive on the Privacy list. In the Spotlight preference area, click the Privacy tab.Ĭlick the “+” on the lower left and choose a record drive. In System Preferences, you should see Spotlight toward the right of the top row. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to do this, so let me save you the time. Failure to do this may result in Pro Tools reporting an error and ending the record pass when Spotlight indexes the drives. If you will be recording to a large number of tracks for over an hour, set all of your drives to private in the Mac OS X System Preferences to ensure maximum performance. ![]() There are known incompatibilities with Spotlight indexing drives while recording audio. Spotlight indexing can interfere with long record passes (97151) According to the Avid ProTools 10.0.1 update documentation dated Jan 18, 2012:
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