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Jul 11, 2014 6:57 AM in response to Csound1by eunicekhong,Thanks, so I ended with an empty list. Nothing seem to happen - does it re-index in the background?
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Jul 11, 2014 10:53 AM in response to eunicekhongby dianeoforegon,Yes, by adding the Macintosh HD then removing it simply toggling Spotlight on/off. This is the most user friendly way to toggle Spotlight. You can also do this in the Terminal, but that scares some users.
How to reset Spotlight using the Terminal
Copy the text below and open Terminal (in /Application/Utilities). Paste the code into the Terminal window at the prompt.
sudo mdutil -E /
You will be asked for your administrator password (and if you've never used the sudo command you'll need to accept the warning presented). When you type your password, it will look like nothing is being typed. That's normal. Once you've typed your administrator password, press Return.
This will completely remove the Spotlight index and force a new one to be created. Probably not necessary, but I would immediately quit Terminal and restart your Mac.
SUMMARY:
Depending on your Mac and the contents of it's hard disk, re-indexing may take several hours. Doing this overnight is a good option if you have a large drive.
You can tell if it's still in progress by simply looking at the Spotlight menu: There's a blinking dot in the middle of the magnifying glass while indexing is occurring. You can also open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities and type in md in the search filter. You should mdworker. If you have Microsoft Outlook you'll also see mdworker32.
Until this process is finished, Spotlight won’t know the contents of your disks and neither will Mail.
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Jul 11, 2014 11:02 AM in response to eunicekhongby dianeoforegon,Yes, it runs in the background.
You can tell if it's still in progress by simply looking at the Spotlight menu: There's a blinking dot in the middle of the magnifying glass while indexing is occurring. (I find this diffucult to see YMMV)
You can also open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities and type in md in the search filter. You should mdworker. If you have Microsoft Outlook you'll also see mdworker32.
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Jul 11, 2014 7:38 PM in response to dianeoforegonby eunicekhong,Thanks Diane, can't see the red dot but several mdworker are running in the Activity Monitor, totalling some 150-200MB of memory.
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Jul 11, 2014 7:49 PM in response to eunicekhongby dianeoforegon,The dot is black not red, but regardless, using the Activity Monitor is easier to read. I'm never sure I actually see it or I'm imaging I see it. :-)
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Jul 12, 2014 5:13 AM in response to dianeoforegonby stedder,I think the dot has gone away entirely in Mavericks.
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Jul 28, 2014 2:35 PM in response to REPGby Act4Tibet,I have been having the same issue since i received my new Mac Pro, the hot black cylinder, 32GB of memory, very fast and efficient, yet i get this horrifying message, and then everything goes wrong, and i have to reboot. Not good. I had a very old machine before and I never had this problem. If this is Maverick's bug, I hope it gets fixed quickly. It's so disheartening to have to deal with this when i am almost certain my machine can handle ten times that work flow... HELP!!!! It's killing me, and it repeats daily ...
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Jul 28, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Act4Tibetby dianeoforegon,Use Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities to monitor Memory. This should shed some light on what process is out of control.
See this link to understand Memory Pressure in Mavericks.
www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/osx/understanding-memory-pressure-in-os-x-maver icks/
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Aug 1, 2014 12:37 PM in response to REPGby LePineapple,Same Problem
I run into this problem while running some python scripts
Please find a solution for this soon! Very frastrusted
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Aug 3, 2014 8:17 AM in response to LePineappleby CT,At this point most people just concede and get a new computer.
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Aug 14, 2014 11:00 PM in response to REPGby Lorenxo22,I have been having the same problem, then further down this feed I saw a comment to download the free app Memory Clean from the App Store (created by FIPLAB) - since it is on the App Store and apparently endorsed by Apple, I gave it a shot. It worked fantastically well. I have 8GB of installed memory and 7.99GB were reportedly tied up. The trick is to keep running Memory Clean and each time it apparently finds more cache files and who knows what else and it cleared out over 5GB of memory - it currently stands at 2.33GB used, 5.7GB available. Pretty amazing. I ran it quite a few times and each time it somehow found more caches to delete.
FIPLAB also provides Disk Doctor for $2.99, which promised to free up hard drive space - it also gets good reviews and is endorsed by Apple, so I gave that a try too. It finds downloads, application caches, etc. - it cleared out 4.2GB from my 500GB hard drive. Not a great amount, but every little bit helps.
So I strongly recommend Memory Clean for "out of application memory" issues and also Disk Doctor to free up hard drive space.
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Aug 29, 2014 5:33 AM in response to REPGby hvidsten15,I´m having the same issue, 2013 macbookpro, I´m not using mail, but mailplane, firefox, lightroom, photoshopCC2014...
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Aug 29, 2014 5:49 AM in response to hvidsten15by greg sahli,Remember that this is a user-to-user forum!
Apple employees rarely participate here!
If you want Apple to know about your issue, you have to report it on apple.com/feedback.
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Sep 8, 2014 7:20 PM in response to Lorenxo22by jdien,I agree that Memory Clean is a godsend! The problem with Mavericks memory management is that it is trying to apply a method that works great on iPhones (where apps tend to be small and the need is to be able to switch between them quickly) to desktops where many of us at least are running very large programs and the need is to have them run as quickly as possible and not needing to switch between programs very often. In my case (I am a scientist who runs large analysis sessions with Matlab), the Mavericks memory management seems to have the effect of making my 32GB Mac Pro act as though it only has a few hundred MB, often causing it to grind to a halt or even crash. The RAM is stuffed full of archived obsolete content that is being held onto like a mentally ill hoarder who is holding onto everything "just in case" to the extent that there is no room to move around and all the computer's CPU cycles are being tied up moving around the little bit that is left open just so I can read some e-mail let alone run a big analysis run. It's ludicrous!