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badga Author

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10.7.5 Quick Fix Back to 10.7.4

OK so you've updated to 10.7.5 and Time Machine is now slow and spotlight is forever running.

Well I just couldn't be bothered with waiting for Apple to sort this out.

The simple solution for me was to restore the whole system from Time Machine.

Here's how.

Make sure you copy all the stuff that you haven't backed up manually to a spare drive.

This fix will restore everything including 10.7.4 and wipe out all unbacked up data.

Hold command R down and reboot with your time machine drive connected.

You'll then have a few options to restore, so select time machine, find the file in the list thatis prior to 10.7.5 (it shows this in the listing)

Hit restore and depending on how much data, there will be an estimated time displayed. In my case about 45 minutes.

Spotlight is now fine and re-indexing within Minutes

Time Machine is back to normal and does not Hang.

I hope this is of help to someone if you're in a fix and as frustrated as I was.

Problem now solved till Apple do a better update.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 3.4Ghz (16GB Ram) Intel Core i7

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 5:39 PM

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LD150

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Oct 5, 2012 3:12 PM in response to badga

badga wrote:

FYI, I'm staying on 10.7.4 for now. I've noted a couple of people still saying TM is SLOW but they may not realize this is due to their SL still indexing. I'll sit on the fence for a while. As for my em😁ticons they are working just great thanks 😉

Like you I too went back to 10.7.4. Spotlight finished indexing very fast. As did TM.

On upgrading back to 10.7.5 today (new download) the Spotlight was still showing fully indexed. No dot in the mag glass. Didn't even flicker. TM back to normal too. It seems fully sorted. I assume that anyone who followed the advice to set the HD as private or deleted the index as their fix will have to rebuild it which will take a while. People going from .4 to the revised .5 should not have any problem.

Pity about the nonsense above.

petermac87

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Oct 5, 2012 5:42 PM in response to LD150

😀 LION fixed, now everybody happy!

Pete

10.7.5 Quick Fix Back to 10.7.4