I've tried the sudo command mentioned in another thread, and also using the Privacy option in Sys Prefs, to no avail.
Any help on stopping Spolight from indexing? It's been doing it for about three days.
Cheers.
Macbook 2.4Ghz (White) 4GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Logic Studio 8, Safari 5.0.2, iLife 08, iWork 08, Aperture 2
if you have a timemachine connected, it will alwys be indexing. That,s they did and it can'nt be disabled.
Don't have Time Machine set up, nor a Time Capsule.
Run Disk Utility to repair/verify your drives to make sure there's no formatting or I/O problems.
contact Apple, as this was their response, they said it always ran could not be shut off. Maybe you can remove it?
Sorry coul'nt help
Running this command in Terminal might show you where it's getting hung up. You will need to give your admin pword, which won't appear in any form when you type it in. You'll get time stamps.
sudo fs_usage -f filesys mds mdworker mdimport
Use Control-C to stop the output, then enter "exit."
Thanks. Here's the report:
Last login: Thu Feb 2 08:41:08 on console
You have new mail.
[my]-MacBook:~ Drew$ sudo fs_usage -f filesys mds mdworker mdimport
Password:
10:00:40 read 0.000009 mds
10:00:40 read 0.000012 mds
10:00:40 read 0.000012 mds
10:00:40 read 0.000012 mds
10:00:40 read 0.000010 mds
10:00:44 read 0.000007 mds
10:00:45 read 0.000013 mds
10:00:58 read 0.000019 mds
However, I don't know how to read this....
I see no useful info from that. Did you check your disks as I suggested?
Also another think you can try is to place all your drives (assuming you have more thant one in the Spotlight's Privacy section. Is it indexing after that? Shouldn't be. And if it isn't start taking the drives out of Privacy one at a time (i.e., let it fully index each drive until spotlight goes quiet again) until you find the drive that may be hanging up its indexing. At least that way you can narrow it down to a single drive.
As I said above, I'd put my mac HD in Privacy and that didn't work.
FWIW, I run Repair Permissions daily and had Verified the disk, and it reported OK. It's a mac - one drive – and my external HDs weren't being indexed.
Update: after installing this week's Apple updates, the issue has gone. I'll keep this thread open for solutions to the issue, and if it recurs for me.
FWIW, I run Repair Permissions daily....
Not worth much. Completely unnessary to do this as routine maintenance. Not weekly, not monthly. Only needed when you have a specific problem related to Permissions. Permissions don't go bad by themselves. Harmless but a complete waste of time.
Yeah, I know this is one of those mac myths, but I do it anyway as it doesn't hurt. The mac equivalent of 'touch wood'?
You'll be better off touching wood. At least we know that works.😉 Or just give it a gentle hug every once in a while. It'll know you care.
Funny you mention that, as I was really trying to word my response without raising eyebrows! Thanks for the help.
I have the same problem. I have a laptop bought in June 2011. When I installed the Mac OS X Lion, last update, it began to index my whole drive for days.
The completion bar of spotlight gets around 5% and then reiniciates again the indexing ("Recaulculating INdexing time...").
I ran the command sudo fs_usage -f filesys mds mdworker mdimport and this is the outuput. It seems that it reinitiates because of the crash or something... "md64 crash state". Any ideas ?
11:53:33.783029 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/log 0.000114 W mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783031 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/text 0.000231 W mds.1130751
11:53:33.783117 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/fid 0.000024 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783131 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/fid 0.000009 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783140 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid 0.000007 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783147 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR 0.000007 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783162 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop 0.000013 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783172 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras 0.000009 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783176 getattrlist /Users 0.000004 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783252 open F=8 (R_____) /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/log 0.000037 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783254 fstat64 F=8 0.000002 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783270 fcntl F=8 <CHECK_OPENEVT> 0.000002 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783276 flistxattr F=8 0.000002 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783278 flistxattr F=8 0.000002 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783301 pthread_fchdir F=16 0.000006 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783304 close F=8 0.000007 mdworker.1130243
11:53:33.783305 close F=16 0.000005 mds.1130653
11:53:33.783571 fcntl F=11 <PATHPKG_CHECK> 0.000007 mds.1131102
11:53:33.783666 fstat64 F=15 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.783675 open F=16 (R_____) . 0.000009 mds.1131163
11:53:33.783676 pthread_fchdir F=15 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.783714 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a17.1H.CDCl3.fid 0.000089 mds.1131102
11:53:33.783754 open [ 2] (R_____) ras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a17.1H.CDCl3.fid/Contents>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000020 mds.1131102
11:53:33.783955 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/log 0.000020 mds.1131163
11:53:33.784036 pthread_fchdir F=16 0.000004 mds.1131163
11:53:33.784040 close F=16 0.000004 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786135 fcntl F=11 <PATHPKG_CHECK> 0.000005 mds.1131102
11:53:33.786208 fstat64 F=15 0.000003 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786217 open F=16 (R_____) . 0.000009 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786219 pthread_fchdir F=15 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786329 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a17.1H.CDCl3.fid/fid 0.000140 mds.1131102
11:53:33.786398 getattrlist /Users/jordicalveras/Desktop/Texas - NMR/A1a101a16.1H.CDCl3.fid/plist.back 0.000022 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786497 fcntl F=-1 [ 9] <GETPATH> 0.000001 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786505 open F=30 (R_____) . 0.000008 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786507 fstat64 F=30 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786509 fcntl F=30 <GETPATH> 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786513 close F=30 0.000004 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786518 stat64 /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/1CDE86B1-AE29-4155-91E0-2A6806703D95 0.000005 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786700 fstat64 F=2 0.000002 mds.1131163
11:53:33.786782 fcntl F=15 <GETPATH> 0.000003 mds.1130751
11:53:33.786785 fstat64 F=15 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.786795 open F=30 (R_____) . 0.000010 mds.1130751
11:53:33.786798 pthread_fchdir F=15 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787044 open F=42 (RWCA__) mds64-crash-state 0.000247 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787047 pthread_fchdir F=30 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787050 close F=30 0.000003 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787064 write F=42 B=0x4 0.000015 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787068 write F=42 B=0x8 0.000003 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787070 write F=42 B=0x8 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787072 write F=42 B=0x8 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787074 write F=42 B=0x8 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787075 write F=42 B=0x8 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787077 write F=42 B=0x3f 0.000002 mds.1130751
11:53:33.787117 close F=42 0.000040 mds.1130751
11:53:33.797189 read F=8 B=0x10e
Can you start your own thread, please, as this is...er... threadjacking. It confuses the thread issue - as your solution may not be the same as mine. Thanks.
If I read correctly, I have the same problem. Spotlight is indexing all the time, it doesn't stop and it seems that it is because it reinitiates the indexing every time that reaches 5% indexing (more or less).
I tried the same tricks: delete the cache, reinitiating the spotlight indexing, putting my hard drive in the Privacy tap in the Spotlight preference panel, then taking it out.
How did you solve your problem ?
spotlight always indexing
