SPOTLIGHT NOT INDEXING 10.7.5 ! TIME MACHINE SLOW !

Drag your Macintosh HD from the desktop to the privacy pane in System Preferences > Spotlight. Then press the minus button (lower-left hand corner) to begin indexing.

I have the same problem and I have already tried this but does not solve, neither with the utility Onyx.

Besides my MacBook becomes slower after each update!

This is a problem with OS X 10.7.5: time machine slow in 10.7.5

One reply has a screenshot estimating 3 years to complete a Spotlight index.

http://pondini.org/TM/D2.html

Same thing here on 3 iMacs: late 2009, mid 2010 and mid 2012. Each one froze while backing up. Started to back up shortly after upgrading to 10.7.5 then froze. I removed drive and tried with another computer --- same thing happened. After the first computer failed, I went on and repeated the process with other 2 all with the same results. Called AppleCare to let them know about problem. They said the engineers were aware of the problem. When I asked if the tech had any personal experience, he said yes with his computer. I asked how he fixed his and he said he didn't yet. So I too encourage anyone with the problem to take the time to call Apple so they understand the magnitude of this problem. I spent a total of 5 or 6 hours messing with this and finally unplugged the backup drive and will resort to drag and drop my documents folder a couple of times a week on my portable drive until they figure it out.

Same for me too. Lasts 2-3-4 weeks for reindex ~180 Gb of data on 7200RPM HDD 😟

And too bad that no Apple reaction yet while very meny suffer from the same issue.

I too had this problem. Spotlight kept stating that it will take 3 days to finish and never actually finished. After trying many suggestions from different Apple support threads, I finally figured out which file was the culprit for my system.

Try going to your user preferences folder ~username/Library/preferences. If you have a file named "com.apple.spotlight.plist.lockfile", remove it. Then reboot and try indexing again.

Spotlight then began to execute normally and within a couple hours, indexed my 1TB drive.

Hi all,

I have the same problem after updating on 10.7.5, too. Hope Apple will fix this asap, cause I can't do any time machine backups any longer and I need my macbook 13" (late 2009) for work!

After reindexing like dexcribed above (in spotlight tool), checking the HDD and repair all bad entries and making PRAM reset, nothiung helped. I got 25 Weeks of indexing time....

Apple have massive problems with their software at the moment, also with iOS6 !

same here,

but not only "weeks" i got 7 month, very funny ..

yesterday i spoke with applecare, beside some terminal commands witch did'nt help they had no idea.

Hi Sascha,

Just read this ...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4345858?answerId=19730536022#19730536022

Good luck ...

Dimaxum

Best way is to go back to 10.7.4, the latest update 10.7.5 isn't working fine: start up problems, slow TimeMachine, constant indexing Spotlight... 😠

Replace the older system with TimeMachine and everything's working okay.😍

hi Dimaxum,

thank you, in the meantime i dissabled spotlight with "tinkertool system" ..

how to downgrade from 10.7.5 to 10.7.4 ?

thanks for advice

Start up your machine with cmd-R on your keyboard (don't forget TimeMachine!), then choose 'replace older system with TM' and choose your latest working OSX-system-date... iMac will do the rest, and later you can replace documents/mail/... with TM. Good Luck! 🙂

i have just reinstalled over 10.7.5 from the 10.7.4 usb stick (i made it myself).

you should check out if the system on your recovery partition is 10.7.4 or 10.7.3 and then reinstall over yur working system. all off your apps, data, prefs and other modifications remain intact after such a "rewrire".