January 2022 • Macworld 65

O

n any Mac, you can

experience odd

slowdowns when copying

or acting on a large

number of files, such as duplicating

a folder with many items in it, cloning

macOS constantly indexes any new files, which can cause mysterious

slowdowns. Glenn Fleishman reports

How to improve your

Mac’s speed by adjusting

Spotlight’s settings

a drive, or testing drive performance.

That’s because Spotlight never

sleeps. It’s constantly looking for

modified or new files to index.

Spotlight’s ‘polling’ can have

a significant performance toll. For