mediaanalysisd repeatedly visiting same files and throwing thousands of errors

Scott Macpherson wrote:

Does anyone know what this error being emitted by mediaanalysisd means?

> Embedding version: 0 not supported, skip embedding publishing

Starting about two weeks ago, every time I woke my displays (my Mac is set to never sleep when plugged in) I noticed mediaanalysisd had been using system resources the entire time the system had been inactive. After digging some more, fs_usage showed the process had been opening the same few-dozen image files hundreds of times an hour. At the same time it was putting thousands of occurrences of the error message above into the system log.

There's nothing wrong with the files in question, and they haven't changed for years. They're just a subset of random images in my home folder.

Excluding the folders which contain the images mediaanalysisd is getting stuck on from Spotlight indexing just results in mediaanalysisd spending the entire night throwing the same error for a different set of files.

macOS Sequoia 15.5 (24F74).

stick them in a folder and exclude them in the Spotlight settings and compare your results....

if that is not working then rebuild the index in its entirety...

add then remove the Macintosh HD

you can verify it is working by entering something, just about anything into the Spotlight search field...

ref: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

no resolve—

Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD, Container, (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

ref: How to repair a Mac storage device with Disk Utility - Apple Support

Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices

Parent drive

Container level

Volume level

Only thing I can think of is to get Onyx & clear all caches, & rebuild Launch DB & Spotlight index.

https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot  as normal and test.  Caches get rebuilt automatically.

Why did you skip Disk First Aid on the System volume?