[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Bob Sneidar]

If spotlight is failing it is because it has encountered bad blocks in the indexing process, and the attempt to relocate the data has failed. Read my prior post. I'm really good at this stuff. It's what I do for a living. 

Bob


On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> The Spotlight processes that I read about are mds and mdworker.  I haven't changed anything significant lately (that I think is significant) but the system might think otherwise.  I just don't know what else to look for.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight
>>> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the
>>> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain
>>> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor).
>>> 
>> 
>> What are you looking for in Activity Monitor? mdworker not Spotlight is
>> what you are looking for. Also, you can see the pulsating dot in the
>> Spotlight magnifying glass.
>> 
>> Have you changed anything recently? New HD, new External HD, new
>> TimeMachine HD or TimeCapsule.
>> 
>> I have TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner backups and if they ever run
>> simultaneously then things can bog down, so I'll pause one.
>> 
>> Other than that the worst I've ever had is Spotlight indexing, and it's
>> just as you describe.
>> 
>> Good luck.
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