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My iMac was making quite a bit of a rumbling noise and I noticed, using Activity Monitor, that mds_stores was using up 50% of CPU processing power.
I read that mds is linked to Spotlight indexing, but mds_stores was active while no indexing was going on.
Does anyone know what mds_stores purpose is, i.e. what it's use is or what it does?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/mds-mac/
Thanks - this reminded me why it's useful to turn spotlight off when using professional apps of any sort.
What is mds_stores process?
