Spotlight high energy impact

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Spotlight high energy impact

Hey everyone.

I've got a Macbook Pro 15 (Mid 2015) that's working great with the exception of Spotlight. Spotlight itself functions and I never would have known something was amiss if it hadn't been for my battery life. My coworker has the same model and gets about 12 hours of battery out of his while I'm only getting 4 to 5 hours. I checked over his settings and confirmed that mine is virtually identical to his. So I checked activity monitor and Spotlight is showing an Energy Impact of 140 to 150 with an Avg Energy Impact that sits around 100 over 8 hours of usage.

I've already tried many of the solutions found online from deleting the index to setting the HD in Spotlight's Privacy section and removing it again. None of those solutions work. Spotlight itself works fine, I use it constantly throughout the day both to launch applications and to find emails in Outlook. I was going through the console and found two sets of errors, one that states the XPC connection was invalidated and a bunch of others from sandboxd about mdworker32. Both error sets are pasted below. The sandboxd errors show up periodically without me doing anything. The XPC errors, on the other hand, show up as I'm typing in Spotlight, every time.

6/3/16 3:40:43.766 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.scmsvr32 (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.772 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.scmsvr32-wal (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.783 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/MicrosoftRegistrationDB.reg (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.818 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.or32 (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.826 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.or32-wal (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.835 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.rot32 (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:40:43.868 PM sandboxd[135]: ([7672]) mdworker32(7672) deny file-write-data /Users/fgant/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/.rot32-wal (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:240000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:com.microsoft.outlook15.message plugin:/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook Spotlight Importer.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 2936621)

6/3/16 3:47:17.048 PM Spotlight[7669]: XPC connection was invalidated

6/3/16 3:47:17.383 PM Spotlight[7669]: XPC connection was invalidated

There were about 30 of the XPC connection errors, one for each character that I typed into Spotlight. The mdworker32 errors obviously point to Outlook but, I can search emails just fine there so Spotlight is doing its job...

Any help would be much appreciated.

Posted on Jun 3, 2016 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 3, 2016 2:03 PM in response to Greensky Financial

Hi,

Might want to check out this discussion > Spotlight Power Use Draining RMBP Battery

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VikingOSX

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Jun 3, 2016 2:10 PM in response to Greensky Financial

Have you updated to OS X 10.11.5, and have you ensured that you have the most recent updates from Microsoft AutoUpdate? It looks like there is an issue with the Office Outlook Spotlight Importer.

Make certain that you are not running any anti-virus, third-party security, or so-called Mac cleaner applications. If so, uninstall these per vendor instructions, as they interfere with normal OS X and application operation.

Boot into Safe Mode:

Power down your MBP.
On power, immediately press and hold the shift key until you observe the horizonatal progress bar. A Safe Boot will be slower than normal as it is clearing out System Caches, rebuilding System databases, and verifying your filesystem.
At the full screen login screen, immediately after you type your password, press and hold the shift key again, as you click the right-arrow to login.
When your Desktop icons begin to paint, release the shift key.
Reboot into Recovery mode (hold command+R) during reboot. [This reboot ends Safe Mode]
Pick OS X Utilities, and run Disk Utility First Aid on your boot partition. If there are any permissions to fix, these will be handled as they are detected, otherwise won't show.
Quit OS X Utilities and Reboot normally.

Do the same messages appear in your Console log after the above steps? None of the categorical symptoms appear that suggest resetting the system management controller, or the NVRAM.

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