[X4U] imac and beach ball

[alexandre]

randy, one last question: would this kind of behaviour be "normal" if  
i were dragging windows and opening safari WHILE installing software  
off of an external firewire drive?

many thanks

alexandre
17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.2
24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 2.0gb / 250gb / X.4.11

On May 20, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

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> On May 20, 2008, at 12:17 AM, alexandre wrote:
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>> 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".
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>> i haven't transfered any data to the drive yet, apart from leopard.  
>> it has 13.5gb of data on it.
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>> 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)
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>> …and no changes so far! (but things are better)
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>> thanks, alexandre
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> Maybe you were lucky and you just had a very small corrupted  
> database that was quick and easy to rebuild.  Please let us know if  
> the problem re-manifests itself or if it seems to have been resolved.
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