Comments on: 10.6.2 Caused an Empty Menu Bar if Spotlight icon was disabled http://www.mymacosx.com/tricks-and-tips/10-6-2-caused-empty-menu-bar-spotlight-icon-disabled.html Tips and Tricks for the MacOS X Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dataquent http://www.mymacosx.com/tricks-and-tips/10-6-2-caused-empty-menu-bar-spotlight-icon-disabled.html/comment-page-1#comment-287 dataquent Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:10:53 +0000 http://www.mymacosx.com/?p=361#comment-287 How to Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091030173117381 To turn Spotlight Indexing off and on in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and to remove the Menu Bar Icon, follow these steps... To turn Spotlight Indexing off in open Terminal and run this command: sudo mdutil -a -i off To turn Spotlight Indexing back on, repeat the above command, but change off to on. To remove the menu bar icon, run this Terminal command: sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search You'll then to restart the menu bar with killall SystemUIServer to see the icon vanish. How to Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu.

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To turn Spotlight Indexing off and on in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and to remove the Menu Bar Icon, follow these steps…

To turn Spotlight Indexing off in open Terminal and run this command:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
To turn Spotlight Indexing back on, repeat the above command, but change off to on. To remove the menu bar icon, run this Terminal command:
sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
You’ll then to restart the menu bar with killall SystemUIServer to see the icon vanish.

]]> By: Kirill http://www.mymacosx.com/tricks-and-tips/10-6-2-caused-empty-menu-bar-spotlight-icon-disabled.html/comment-page-1#comment-194 Kirill Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:33:09 +0000 http://www.mymacosx.com/?p=361#comment-194 If you want to still be able to keep all of the functionality of the menu bar spotlight search but have white space for the spotlight in the menu bar you can replace the icon image file with a blank one or your own custom icon. The image file is /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources/MDSearchMenuIcon.pdf Steps: 1. Navigate to folder cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources 2. Open folder open . 3. Make copy for backup 4. Give yourself read write permission on parent folder and image file 5. Open image in Adobe Illustrator 6. Modify icon to liking 7. Save 8. Restart SystemUIServer killall SystemUIServer If you want to still be able to keep all of the functionality of the menu bar spotlight search but have white space for the spotlight in the menu bar you can replace the icon image file with a blank one or your own custom icon.
The image file is
/System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources/MDSearchMenuIcon.pdf

Steps:
1. Navigate to folder
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources

2. Open folder
open .

3. Make copy for backup
4. Give yourself read write permission on parent folder and image file
5. Open image in Adobe Illustrator
6. Modify icon to liking
7. Save
8. Restart SystemUIServer

killall SystemUIServer

]]> By: David http://www.mymacosx.com/tricks-and-tips/10-6-2-caused-empty-menu-bar-spotlight-icon-disabled.html/comment-page-1#comment-113 David Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:33:48 +0000 http://www.mymacosx.com/?p=361#comment-113 Great! That fixed it. Thanks! Now, how do I disable spotlight again? :) Great! That fixed it. Thanks!
Now, how do I disable spotlight again? :)

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