time machine slow in 10.7.5

Hi,

Ra_ wrote:

Dimaxum wrote:

Hi,

To everybody who is struggeling with Spotlight.

Read my latest post ...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4375642

Dimaxum

Doesn't work for me.

And why is it NOT working for you ??

How can you say this ?? You have to wait what Spotlight is doing ...

Please describe "why" you think this is not working.

Dimaxum

Dimaximum: Does'nt work for me and I also do not know why.

There is actually no need for onyx

or any other "helpers". In fact these

tools are dangerous in this case.

Try this or wait until Apple can fix it or switch to windows ;o)

1. Stop Spotlight in Terminal: sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

2. Delete Spotlight directory in Terminal: sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

3. Run Time Machine at normal speed.

4. Delete unneccessary mdimporters

5. Switch on Spotlight in Terminal: sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

6. Run Spotlight

As I wrote on my previous post: I was down to 4 hours (50% ar now done).

If you use your computer during the indexing (like I do now) it takes longer.

And why is it NOT working for you ??

How can you say this ?? You have to wait what Spotlight is doing ...

Please describe "why" you think this is not working.

Dimaxum

Well, I certainely don't know why it is not working, that's the problem, right?

I tryed everything but when spotlight is on it's indexing for ever and backups are insanely slow, when spotlight is off the backup acts normally.

I choose TM backups over Spotlight until Apple fixes it.

Delete unneccessary mdimporters

Hello,

what are mdimporters? How do I delete them?

There is actually no need for onyx

or any other "helpers". In fact these

tools are dangerous in this case.

Why are these tools dangerous in this case.

By the way: I have used the your given terminal commands, and I have used one of these little helpers (Cache Cleaener) and Spotlight has finished indexing after a few hours, but with Spotlight on Time Machine is still slow (needs about 10 minutes for 5 MB)

@ Venares

I do not really like helpers like Tinker Tool, Onyx etc.

But it is a personal thing. OS X has all tools onboard from

my point of view.

mdimporters are "plug ins" for spotlight.

You may find them here:

(user/library/spotlight AND library/spotlight):

Drag them into trash but do not delete them.

I've had (you may found others).

FontMDI.mdimporter

GBSpotlightImporter.mdimporter

iWork.mdimporter

ParallelsMD.mdimporter

ParallelsQL.qlgenerator

QuarkXPress.mdimporter

Wolfram Notebook.mdimporter

Do NOT delete the mdimporters in system/library/spotlight

There are:

Application.mdimporter

Archives.mdimporter

Audio.mdimporter

Automator.mdimporter

Bookmarks.mdimporter

Chat.mdimporter

CoreMedia.mdimporter

Font.mdimporter

iCal.mdimporter

Image.mdimporter

iPhoto.mdimporter

iPhoto8.mdimporter

Mail.mdimporter

MIDI.mdimporter

PDF.mdimporter

PS.mdimporter

QuartzComposer.mdimporter

RichText.mdimporter

SystemPrefs.mdimporter

vCard.mdimporter

Hi Ra_

You have to disable TimeMachine until Spotlight is finishing the job.

Spotlight and TimeMachine are related to each other, as long Spotlight is trying to indexing in the same time TimeMachine is trying to make a backup.

After Spotlight is working again TimeMachine takes a view minutes to backup.

Dimaxum

Dimaxum did I understand you right:

When you fire up Spotlight, Time Machine will also launch?

No I'm saying that with Spotlight off, TM works normally, as stated numbers of time before.

Dimaxum, as I said, I tryed everything. This doesn't work for me either.

As far as I understand this issue, it's ok for people who just upgraded to 10.7.5 and are still on incremental TM backups, it's small chunks, background proccess, you probably won't notice the bug.

But as I changed my hard drive and had to do a fresh full backup and Spotlight reindexing, then it's days and weeks of indexing and backup.

There is nothing we can do in that case (as far as I know).

Okay, now I understand.

Good luck ...

Dimaxum

Not reading thru 22 pages so apologies if already stated, but what I did was disable Spotlight to do a Time Machine backup then reactivated it. Time machine is more important to me.

two worring features:-

1. Before I disabled spotlight, Time Machine was stuck at "Backing up 40k of 245MB. After I disabled Spotlight it zoomed through the backup but actually backed up 3.5GB . Why the disparity I wonder?

2. What the flip is Apple doing releasing this garbage upgrade unless it is to get us to pay money for Mountain Lion??

I am not printing the commands here but link is

http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/10/disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-lion/#com ment-432396

Allready stated a million times 😉

Ra_ wrote:

Allready stated a million times 😉

It needs to be.

Now that spotlight is reinstated and has finished indexing, it still screws up Time Machine. Not just slow, stuck. Maybe that's been stated a million times too. Sorry, but disgrace on Apple.

peter_watt wrote:

Ra_ wrote:

Allready stated a million times 😉

It needs to be.

Now that spotlight is reinstated and has finished indexing, it still screws up Time Machine. Not just slow, stuck. Maybe that's been stated a million times too. Sorry, but disgrace on Apple.

I agree with you.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-tn-apple-maps-app-lion-upgrade-20120 928,0,6673140.story

Bad publicity often has a magical way of speeding up bug fixing. There is now an article about this issue in a major Mac newspaper in Sweden: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.468888/bugg-i-os-x-1075-sabbar-time-machine

Hopefully this will get Apples attention :)