Cocktail provides the possibility to enable / disable and erase the Spotlight index. Enabling / disabling Spotlight
to index individual disks is a handy feature when you have disks that you do not want to be indexed. An example of when
indexing is not wanted is when a disk contains backup files. To include backup files in the index will most certain create
confusion. An other example is when a disk contains huge amount of files which are not likely to be the result of your queries.
Cocktail provides the possibility to erase Mac OS Xs Spotlight index. This can come handy if the index becomes corrupt. A corrupt
index is often the reason when Spotlight do not get any hits on queries that should generate results. If the Spotlight index
is erased Mac OS X will generate a new from scratch.
Configure Spotlight:
Disable dictionary results:
Prohibits Spotlight to display definitions of query's found in the dictionary.
Disable calculator results:
Prohibits Spotlight to calculate mathematical expressions.