Spotlight Icon flashing, drives already indexed

Hello d:

If the icon is flashing, Spotlight is indexing something. Go to system preferences>spotlight>privacy. Be sure that your external hard drives (if any) are excluded.

Barry

Hi there,

Never saw top right Spotlight icon flashing or with the around mentioned dot mark as an indexing activity, only saw activity notice by clicking icon while first indexes were created.
Are you sure it is flashing?

Good luck.

Hello d:

I did read the question.

What have you looked at to definitively state it is not indexing?

If it is not, the problem lies someplace within your system.

terminal stylee.

If you are talking about a terminal command, that certainly would not be the way to address a problem.

Barry

Hi again:

I do not use parallels or VMWare so I would be guessing (not helpful to you).

The kernel panics may be hardware or software, but my non-scientific analysis indicates hardware is the more usual cause.

I would run repair disk from your software install DVD to try to rule out directory corruption.

Barry

Ok is the spot light icon actually flashing like it was selected? Or is the dot in the middle of the spy glass flashing? If it's the later try re indexing to be sure. Drag mac hd in to the spot light preferences exclusions and restart, then remove it. Also run disk utility and verify disk (repair from install DVD if necessary). If those don't fix, safe boot the machine holding shift on startup sound untill you see the apple. Could be 3rd party. Let me know how that goes.

Hi D,

Here we go, use the mdutil command line as mdutil -OptionListedBellow /Volumes/DeviceName

The mdutil command is useful for managing the metadata stores for mounted volumes. You will be able to erase see index status, erase index, rebuild index and others.

The following options are available:

-p Spotlight caches indexes of some network devices locally. This option requests that a local caches be flushed to the appropriate network device.

-E This flag will cause each local store for the volumes indicated to be erased. The stores will be rebuilt if appropriate.

-i on | off
Sets the indexing status for the provided volumes to on or off. Note that indexing may be delayed due to low disk space or other conditions.

-s Display the indexing status of the listed volumes.

-a Apply command to all volumes.

-v Print verbose information when available.

Read mdutil and mdls manual pages with the command line man mdutil and man mdls.

Good luck.