STU9000 wrote:
I'm not really sure I understand what indexing is, but I'd guess this spotlight is building up a temporary database of files on my computer whenever I turn my computer on for quick keyword searches. I don't normally search for photos using spotlight so I turn that onto privacy mode.
Spotlight is rather quirky, to put it politely. I've never quite understood the big spike after booting, either, as it does put a hidden index on each drive, and does index files as they're added or changed. It also examines any (non-excluded) disk/partition as soon as it's attached, so perhaps that's at least part of what's going on.
I would also hazard a guess that the problem here stems from the fact that I am using third party software digital camera software and it is not communicating with Spotlight as to the whereabouts of the files? No, that is probably not quite right.
It is quite possible for 3rd-party software to be involved, somehow or other, directly or indirectly. The only way to tell for sure would be to turn it off. Even that might not do it, as there could be a separate autostart process doing something, too.
I don't understand why it needs to run every time I start up, should it not already have this information from the previous time it was being used.
Ditto.
One thing you might try is, set up a different user. Do a shutdown and start-up and log in as that other user and see if the problem persists.
