time machine slow in 10.7.5

Ok, an "interresting" fact: on my Macbook the indexing went from the infamous time estimation directly to done. No progression bar or anything.

Same here... 6 hours to finished in an instant.

After 10.7.5 Supplemental update, Time Machine is as slow as before, I think. It's just taken an hour and a half to backup 320MB. It was stuck on 70MB for about half an hour. Now it says preparing backup again!

Bah!

Ah, and do TimeMachine works ok after this long estimating/indexing?

Well I'm in Silicone Heaven :-)

It's ALL working great here, on all my Macs and Servers.

261.43GB IS going to backup in the 4 hours it says.

I'm off to iron Mr Listers underpants :-O

Now also Spotlight is up and running at normal speed, after Supplemental update fixed Time Machine.

I just had to delete the "entire index directory" using Spotless on my startup disk.

Thanks for the help from this thread

Piero

It doesn't seem to work for me, Spotlight is still estimating after a few hours…

I'm not sure what can I do now.

Try: download Spotless 4.0.0 (you don't need to register now), select the disk in its window and Delete entire index directory. When asked click on Delete and Enable. Spotless cleans up the index and starts Spotlight again from scratch. It worked with me; it takes a while (couple hours for me) but you can see it progressing...

Piero

The Supplemental Update has fixed my Time Machine and Spotlight issues. Signing out of this thread now.

Thanks but I allready tryed this.

I'm giving more hours to see if it's going somewhere before I'm trying again.

Spotless reads that my startup drive index size is 8,5 megs… after 2 or 3 hours of work…

Ok apparently it stops at 8+ mega every time.

I tryed everything, I don't get it.

Ok after restarting and rebuilding the index again and again, rebooting in safe mode, trying stuff here and there, apparently the index is building up normally now (it passed 8 megs and doing ok now).

So, if anyone is having the same problem as I did, well I don't know what to say, I don't understand how I fixed it.

Try here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4397410?tstart=0

there are suggestions on how to "clean up" in order for the repaired frameworks to work better.

Roberto

Well, I'm ok now, indexing almost done (SSD drive, super fast like it should be) but thanks for the pointer.