How to Disable (or Enable) Spotlight in Mac OS X Mavericks & Mountain LionHow to Disable (or Enable) Spotlight in Mac OS X Mavericks & Mountain Lion Completely disabling and reenabling Spotlight in Mac OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, and OS X Mavericks can be done with the help of the Terminal. The following command unloads the Spotlight mds agent from launchd, thereby preventing the daemon from running or indexing any drives entirely. Open up the Terminal (found in /App
