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Dimaxum Author

Level 5

5,997 points

TIP - Spotlight is working again ...

Hi ALL,

After struggling for nearly a week after the latest update 10.7.5 I found the solution to "SPOTLIGHT INDEXING" and backing-up with TimeMachine.

In my earlier posted topic(s) I recommended to disable Spotlight temporally until Apple came up with a solution.

After a deep search on the Internet I found yesterday a Spotlight index issue solution from may 2012.

What could I louse? So, I gave it a try.

And viola, after 18 hours Spotlight finished indexing.

Making a back-up now is not a problem anymore when Spotlight is enabled.

TimeMachine finished the job in 9 minutes.

Read this web side and pas the 2 commands into Terminal ...

I hat to do it 2 times until it worked ...

http://guidovanoorschot.nl/how-to-fix-spotlight-when-it-keeps-indexing-n-mac-os- x-lion/

Good luck ...

Dimaxum

Late 2009 24, Mac OS X (10.7), iMac G4/1250 MHz-80GB HD-768Mb RAM iBook G3/600MHz 20GB-HD-64

Posted on Sep 30, 2012 1:49 AM

35 replies

lauhub

Level 1

4 points

Oct 5, 2012 12:08 PM in response to Network 23

The Supplemental update seems to work fine for me too. Thanks

@mucsist: Mountain Lion makes battery lifetime half the one it had with lion on my mid2011 MacBookAir. So no, I won't re-install it.

Network 23

Level 6

12,339 points

Oct 5, 2012 1:05 PM in response to lauhub

lauhub wrote:

@mucsist: Mountain Lion makes battery lifetime half the one it had with lion on my mid2011 MacBookAir. So no, I won't re-install it.

Just curious...was your battery lifetime still half with 10.8.2? Because reports were that 10.8.2 was supposed to restore battery life to at least as long as before.

Oct 6, 2012 2:40 AM in response to Network 23

Network 23 wrote:

There is now a new OS X Lion 10.7.5 Supplemental Update that seems to say it solves this. Downloading now...

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599

OK. This Supplemental Update works for me too.

Time Machine backup and Spotlight are working again.

lauhub

Level 1

4 points

Oct 6, 2012 2:52 AM in response to Network 23

Network 23 wrote:

Just curious...was your battery lifetime still half with 10.8.2? Because reports were that 10.8.2 was supposed to restore battery life to at least as long as before.

I uninstalled ML before 10.8.2, so did not test. And do not want to test again since ML did not brought much to me.

Oct 6, 2012 3:55 AM in response to Dimaxum

Supplemental Update works for me. Took a while, but Apple came through in the end.

Too many hours wasted, though, this week.

TIP - Spotlight is working again ...