[NTG-context] macOS

[Willi Egger]

If I understand the policy of Apple correctly, then it is that \usr is not meant to be a directory to be used by the user and therefore spotlight by default will not index anything in that directory. When opening Finder then the mentioned folder is not even shown i.e. it is hidden and spotlight will accordingly not index such directories.

Willi

> On 31 Mar 2020, at 10:44, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
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> I already had done all of that including command line versions like ‘sudo mdutil -E’
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> It turns out macOS apparently excludes /usr (amongst other things) and I haven’t found a way to configure that. So, when ConTeXt is installed in /usr/local (which is pretty typical), SpotLight doesn’t find the manuals, whereas when it has been installed in — say — /Applications, it will find them.
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> G
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>> On 31 Mar 2020, at 06:21, janerik.hagglof <janerik.hagglof at bahnhof.se> wrote:
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>> Maybe this is the solution, haven't tried it myself.
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>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
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>> Janne
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>> Med Vänlig Hälsning 
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>> Jan-Erik Hägglöf
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>> Från: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl>
>> Datum: 2020-03-30 23:52 (GMT+01:00)
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>> Spotlight on macOS can help me to find the right documentation. 
>> 
>> When I copy the contents of the folder (the manuals for ConTeXt) from its original location /usr/local/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/manuals to ~/Downloads/TestFolder they are indexed and found by Spotlight.
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>> But not in their original location. Why? And how do I fix this, because I want the manuals and such in /usr/local to be found.
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>> Any Mac user who knows?
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>> G
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