Click the Manage Widgets button to open the Widgets manager window.Click the + icon displayed at the bottom left corner of your screen.Open Dashboard by clicking the Dashboard icon on your Dock.
OSX requires at least one Widget to be active, not sure why exactly, so leave something like Stickies running. The remedy is easy, open Dashboard and disable all Widgets except for one. You might not know this, but those little Widgets, hiding out in Dashboard, eat-up your RAM, even if Dashboard itself is closed. The Weather, World Clock, and Stickies Widgets are kind of cool, but that’s about as far as I delved. To remove the drive, click on the drive icon listed and use the – key.ĭo you use Dashboard Widgets on your Mac? Does anyone use these things? When Mac introduced Dashboard to OSX in 10.4, I gave the mini-apps called Widgets a try, but couldn’t find anything particularly useful for what I do.Repeat the above process for each drive you wish to add to the Privacy list. Click the + sign in the bottom left corner, click on the drive you want to make ‘private,’ and then click Choose.Open System Preferences by clicking the System Preferences icon on your dock.The only hitch, Spotlight will no longer be able to search the drives you make ‘private.’ If you’re a Spoltight addict, don’t worry, you can easily remove your drives from the Privacy list to restore searchability after your gig is over. The easiest way to prevent indexing is to adjust your Spotlight Privacy settings. For everyday use, this is fine and not too much of a nuisance, but when using resource intensive audio applications, having Spotlight suddenly start indexing in the middle of your set can be disastrous. Have you ever seen the Spotlight magnifying glass icon with a pulsating dot in the middle? Did you notice your Mac running super sluggish while this was occurring? This is Spotlight creating a virtual index of all the files and folders in your system (i.e., indexing), allowing Spotlight to quickly search your drives. This next article takes the Mac tweaks one step further by guiding you through advanced Mac optimizations and recommended application add-ons to help fine-tune your Mac for live performance. Are you ready to dig a little deeper and further optimize your Mac for live performance? Within the previous Mac optimizations article- Quick Mac Optimization for Live Performance-I walked you through a few basic system adjustments.
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