I am running macos 9 (system 9) on my ppc mac g4 (466mhz model) and randomly after booting, it will start to run an index of the disk, it freezes the entire system and never gets past 'starting', never advancing enough to show an ETA. it stayed frozen fr 7h before i cut power
i have been using macos 9 for 2 years just fine without an index, how to i fix this?
the latest tiger is so slow, so i am using this instead
PowerBook
I recommend reading Don Archibald's User Tip regarding Indexing, that can be found here. These directions are taken from it:
Indexing is only necessary if you use Find By Content searches - it creates a database of the text contents of files, so that you can search for a file whose contents include a given word or phrase. Indexing is not needed if you only search by filename or other file characteristic (File Type, date modified, invisible, etc.).
To disable indexing completely - it's rather easy, but not at all obvious (or intuitive). Open Sherlock. Select "Index Volumes..." from the Find menu - this won't start the indexing process. In the window that initially opens, uncheck all volumes in the list. Close the window, and you're done - no more indexing.
If you have disabled indexing completely, you can then also disable these extensions in Extensions Manager - FBC Indexing Scheduler and Find By Content.
I recommend reading Don Archibald's User Tip regarding Indexing, that can be found here. These directions are taken from it:
Indexing is only necessary if you use Find By Content searches - it creates a database of the text contents of files, so that you can search for a file whose contents include a given word or phrase. Indexing is not needed if you only search by filename or other file characteristic (File Type, date modified, invisible, etc.).
To disable indexing completely - it's rather easy, but not at all obvious (or intuitive). Open Sherlock. Select "Index Volumes..." from the Find menu - this won't start the indexing process. In the window that initially opens, uncheck all volumes in the list. Close the window, and you're done - no more indexing.
If you have disabled indexing completely, you can then also disable these extensions in Extensions Manager - FBC Indexing Scheduler and Find By Content.
powermac g4 macos 9 stuck on indexing
