What SPOTLIGHT does and doesn't index?

This information must be somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it . . .
~ What exactly SPOTLIGHT does and doesn't index? ~
Thanks for any assistance.

Try this one. Create and delete iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch backups in iTunes - Apple Support

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Try this one. Create and delete iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch backups in iTunes - Apple Support

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I'm helping out my nephew who's in college. His hard drive failed, so he sent his laptop to me and I installed a new hard drive. I replaced his 60 GB drive with a 120 GB. (G4 Aluminum 12 inch) I hooked the drive up to my ibook by putting it in target mode and the drive showed up. Formatted it and sent it off to him.
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Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive
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Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
Select Erase tab
Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
Click Erase button
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Open Installer and begin installation.
Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
Check box to install X11 (Tiger) BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
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Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
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Go to Apple Menu > Software Update.
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Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
Let me know how things go.
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EDIT: BAH! I posted too slow... but there is still some information about saving and clearing in there
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Noel Carboni just posted some comments on Windows Indexing on the Photoshop Forum. Though there are some differences in the files being indexed, and some of the ramifications, I thought the info useful, so am adding it here:
Disable Indexing
Indexing is supposed to make it quick and easy to find things on your computer using Windows Search (that little box at the upper-right of Explorer windows).
But when you think about it, does it make sense to read all the files on your disk, extract everything you could possibly want to search for, and store it on that same disk another way? To even consider indexing providing better performance than just searching the files, Microsoft must be picking and choosing the data they think you'll want to look for (excluding data you WON'T want to search for), where you'll want to search, and in what kinds of files, and in fact they are. How could they know everything you'll ever want to search for?
They can't. Not everything is indexed, and never will be!
Try this: Create a simple text file on your disk, in a temporary folder. Call it "FindMe.log" and put in the text "This file contains important tax information". Now navigate to that folder with Explorer and enter the word "tax" into the Search box at the upper-right. Enter any of the words in that file! Windows Search will not find the file, because it simply does not LOOK in .log files by default, and there's no fallback strategy - Windows Search simply does not index nor search for information for some kinds of files. Incredible!
All it takes is ONE TIME searching for something you know is there and NOT finding it to destroy your confidence in Windows Search.
And so they scan through your files endlessly, pick out the strings you might someday search for, and store them in yet another set of files (the "index"). As though your computer has nothing better to do.
Not only is the basic premise of this wrong, but it's not even implemented very well. The index often becomes corrupted, and so Microsoft has provided functions for you to clear and regenerate it. Just what you wanted to be doing - NOT.
Consider these shortcomings:
Some file types are simply not indexed or searched by default – e.g., .log files, and there's no fallback. If you create a new file type no one's seen before, its contents will not be indexed.
Only strings Microsoft thinks you are likely to search for are indexed.
Because of poor implementation, indexing will miss things in some file types that are indexed – e.g., older Microsoft Word documents or files containing Unicode text (Microsoft's own invention).
Indexes often become corrupted and the Windows Search results fall out of date or it stops finding things entirely.
Indexing operations use computer time, increase disk wear, and interfere with your own access to your files.
In summary, indexed Windows Search operations in Windows 7 simply can't be trusted to find your data in your files when it's critical, and so they're essentially useless. Searching for filenames using Windows Search actually can be occasionally useful (though the syntax to ensure it searches only filenames is a bit tricky), but this doesn't require indexing.
Moreover, indexing can actually interfere with file operations, causing your system to report disk corruption, because of an implementation error in indexing and NTFS (search the web for "Atomic Oplock", for example).
So indexing should simply and utterly be disabled. This won't actually stop you being able to try Windows Search - on the contrary with indexing off Windows 7 will actually search your actual files (within the limitations listed above) just when you tell it to, and (since indexing isn't implemented very well) it may actually INCREASE the probability that you might find what you're looking for.
Here's how to disable indexing:
1.        Click Start and enter services in the search box.
2.        When Services (with little gears) comes up, click it.
3.        Scroll down to the Windows Search service.
4.        Right click it and choose Properties.
5.        Change the Startup type to Disabled.
6.        Click [ Stop ] to stop the service.
7.        Click [ OK ].
8.        Click Start and enter index in the search box.
9.        When Indexing options comes up, click it.
10.     Click the Advanced button.
11.     Click the [ Rebuild ] button to delete the index.
12.     It is a good idea to reboot after this.
-Noel
And a "thanks" to Noel for putting this together. As the thread that this originally appeared in has a lot of Photoshop material, and discussions on "other OS's" than Win7, I just exerpted this block.
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