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# Spotlight

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 OS X's 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 OS X will generate a new from scratch.

Configure Spotlight:

1. Choose disk in the menu.
2. Enable or disable indexing.
3. Choose if you want to erase the index.

Hide menu bar icon:

Hides the Spotlight menu bar icon.