yosemite - spotlight - see progress of reindex?

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yosemite - spotlight - see progress of reindex?

Hello:

I ugpraded to yosemite yesterday. I had spotlight completely turned off in mavericks osx as it made the macbookpro(4gb ram) go so so slow. unworkable.

So yesterday, after upgrade, I wanted to see if I could get Spotlight back working and have a fast system style.

So

- I dragged the "macintosh" OUT of hte Spotlight privacy window (preferences/spotlight/privancy tab)

- then back in

- and back out (so Spotlight set then to reindex entire mac hardrive)

(I was told that series of steps would force spotlight to reindex.

but then like mavericksosx, the macbook pro ground to slow slow speed.

How do I see where spotlight reindex progress is up to?

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I stopped it at 3hrs as it was too unbearable. I have now put the "macintosh" back into the Spotlight privacy window (so Spotlight is effectively turned OFF) and the macboook pro speed is good again.

thankyou

Posted on Nov 23, 2014 2:53 PM

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Answer 1

dominic23

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Nov 23, 2014 3:43 PM in response to seaseasea

When Spotlight indexing is in progress, if you launch Spotlight,

a blue progress bar next to “Indexing” will be shown.

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Answer 2

Barney-15E

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Nov 23, 2014 4:00 PM in response to seaseasea

I have no idea what it is, but something is either interfering with Spotlight or is confusing it during the index.

It should not cause any slowdowns once it has completed indexing.

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Answer 3

Feb 2, 2015 3:28 AM in response to seaseasea

Those steps are correct. And dominic23 is also correct, however, you will not see the progress bar until you've typed something into the spotlight search text field (which is now floating in the middle of your screen with Yosemite) because the index progress bar is in the spotlights results window. See picture

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Answer 4

ApMaX

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May 1, 2015 12:11 PM in response to Apple-Doha

Thanks, Apple-Doha.

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Answer 5

May 6, 2015 8:47 PM in response to ApMaX

I did the things proscribed for Spotlight index update...Privacy...drag in...drag out...blah blah.

Then total panic set in as I saw much of my email disappeared!!! Smart Mailboxes empty!!! YIKES!!!

Then I saw they were re-filling slowly...eventually all came back after maybe 30 minutes...apparently was part of the re-indexing process...takes time...don't panic...I almost gave up and reinstalled previous TimeMachine backup until I saw all was coming back and well...whew!!!

Any thoughts???

Bill

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