Lion Spotlight search broken? Always returns 1000's of results!
Anytime I do a search in Lion I get 5,000+ results.
Even for a known unique word like "aaabbbcccdddeee".
Reindexing Spotlight has no effect.
Mac OS X (10.7)
Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Anytime I do a search in Lion I get 5,000+ results.
Even for a known unique word like "aaabbbcccdddeee".
Reindexing Spotlight has no effect.
Mac OS X (10.7)
I worked with Apple support today here is what we did, seems to have fix this immediate issue of MDWorker taking all CPU resources
Move these files to the trash, do not delete,
/Library/preferences
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
com.apple.spotlight.plist.lockfile
com.apple.spotlight.plist
restart MBP
If you had Indexer turned off
turn it back on from a terminal session
Turn indexing back on for /
sudo mdutil -i on /
Let the Indexes build
Problem has been resolved.
I repaired User account permissions using the Reset Password utility in the Lion Recovery Partition. This is different than Repair Permissions using Disk Utility.
Good description of how to do this here:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_resolve_user-level_permissions_iss ues_mac_os_x/
Hi there, I have tried the resetting of the ACL's but console still says:
(Normal) Import: exceeded time/resource use limits after 12002 milliseconds, reason:1 - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 1566230
every 12 seconds
I also stopped indexing, cleared the index and started it again, but mdworker still comes back with 100% CPU capacity...
It sounds like mdworker is crashing when indexing a certain file, which your console log is trying to help you locate: sudo mdutil -t 1566230
I did a google search [including quotes]: "mdutil -t"
Found a reference to a bug in the Spotlight importer for Open Office if you have that installed.
Here are the links:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=103845
http://www.mail-archive.com/issues@framework.openoffice.org/msg01034.html
Hope that helps...
After playing with Open Office as you did, the problem was still there. With Spring Cleaning I removed all the OO files I could find. After that, I restarted but that mdutil message is returning every 12 seconds. I read anonther items that says:
I did that already, with no succes... I very desperate what to do now!
I did some other things, but with no positive result. Found out that Stuffit deLuxe was making faults and upgraded to the latest version. Did some stopping indexing, remove Spotlight index and started indexing again. Same results. Perhaps this is something about the solution:
PSSniffer error: Invalid argument
or
Incorrect start/end range ordering; fixing.
I have tried so much, but nothing helps, still getting these messages, every 10 or 12 seconds
(Normal) Import: exceeded time/resource use limits after 12003 milliseconds, reason:1 - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 1566230
Today, I was able to spend some time on this issue. And found out what the culprit was: in the log in items there were 2 items with a mark behind it, they were not found anymore: magic menu and some other one...
Now, I don't get any of those anoying messages in console anymore. And, what is more important: my CPU gets some rest after all those days and week and months of exhausting hard work...
Bye and thanks for helping me...
Peter Paul from the Netherlands
Hi, folks! I took some time exploring this mean issue. I took the spotlight preferences and began to sort out which file or folder is the reason of the issue. After some 24 hours of waiting with trial and error, I found out the the folders EXTENSIS in the LIBRARY folder of the main USER is the culprit!!!!!
As a MAc user for many years (from 1985) I gathered some 22.000 fonts in Suitcase Fusion 3 now and that will be to much for Spotlight to index...
Now, my CPU gets some rest, after all those hours of being annoided by this not being able to index the FontDatabase of Suicace Fusion 3...
...sorry my somehow bad English
thanks for the updates, sounds like you finally found the problem...
your english is just fine 🙂
Problem has been resolved.
I repaired User account permissions using the Reset Password utility in the Lion Recovery Partition. This is different than Repair Permissions using Disk Utility.
Good description of how to do this here:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_resolve_user-level_permissions_iss ues_mac_os_x/
This solved my problem too!
(I had opposite problem, Spotlight returning no results despite having been reindexed multiple times.
Lion Spotlight search broken? Always returns 1000's of results!