[X4U] imac and beach ball

[alexandre]

hi randy

i've been keping an eye on spotlight, and as far as i know it isn't  
indexing the drive, the spotlight menubar icon isn't "glowing".

i haven't transfered any data to the drive yet, apart from leopard. it  
has 13.5gb of data on it.

i've just rebuilt the spotlight database, as you've suggested. it took  
less than 5 minutes to re- index the drive (spotlight menubar icon has  
stopped glowing)

…and no changes so far! (but things are better)

thanks, alexandre



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>> i have a 24" intel imac ("late 2006") that has been working fine  
>> until last friday. that day, i took it to the local mac dealer to  
>> have the hard drive upgraded, from the original 250gb to a 1000gb.
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>> so… i'm begining to think there is a problem with the new drive.
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>> is there anything i can still do besides taking it back to the shop  
>> for a hard drive exchange?
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> Alexandre, you have installed a new *huge* hard drive.  I don't know  
> how much data you have transferred to it already, but Spotlight is  
> undoubtedly indexing it.  It is even possible that your Spotlight  
> database has become corrupted and that it is continually trying to  
> index things to no avail.
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> Here is what I would do.
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> Run Activity Monitor, and check for percentage of CPU used, and see  
> what is running that is causing a slowdown. "mds" and "mdimport" are  
> Spotlight processes. If they are what is causing the slowdown,  
> Spotlight probably has a corrupted database.
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> To fix this, Open System Preferences, choose the Spotlight panel,  
> click on the Privacy tab, and drag your main drive's icon into the  
> Privacy window.  Now highlight your hard drive's icon within the  
> Privacy window and
> click on the "-" (that is, the minus button in the Privacy Window).
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> Or you could highlight the hard drive icon in the Privacy window and  
> hit the delete key.
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> This will cause the Spotlight database to be deleted and  
> automatically rebuilt. (You won't be able to use Spotlight while its  
> database is being rebuilt.).
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> After doing this, set your Mac so that it won't go to sleep, and  
> leave your Mac on for 24 hours, and allow Spotlight to index your  
> entire drive uninterrupted.
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> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
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> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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