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Looking for any pointers as to what might be going on here on a customers white MacBook running 10.6.3.
Customers MacBook died (logic board vs wine) so replaced it and did a clean 10.6.3 install followed by a time machine restore. Ever since then Spotlight has been continually indexing. Have tried binning prefs, adding drive to privacy and removing. Have run Onyx and cleaned out every cache I can find, repaired prefs in Disk Utilities, run fsck. Whatever I try Spotlight just wont stop indexing. Getting a mite annoyed.
Any ideas what else to try before the ultimate (nuke and pave)
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Does the customer have a very large number of indexable files? If you click the Spotlight icon while indexing, it will tell you something about what it's doing, along with a progress bar. Might be worth checking Console to see if there are error messages. And you can use Activity Monitor to kill the mds processes, if one has hung.
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Thanks seanc. Looks like an "interesting" diagnostic visit ahead next week then.
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Originally Posted by reader50 
Does the customer have a very large number of indexable files? If you click the Spotlight icon while indexing, it will tell you something about what it's doing, along with a progress bar. Might be worth checking Console to see if there are error messages. And you can use Activity Monitor to kill the mds processes, if one has hung.
No, they have about an average number of files. Clicking on spotlight reveals just a barbers pole and no estimated time remaining.
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Sounds like Spotlight is still counting the files to index. The progress bar would appear after it has built it's list, and knows how many are left to do. I'd suspect either disk damage (fsck rules that out) or Spotlight being confused by a damaged index file.
Try turning Spotlight off. Then use a utility to delete all the indexes. Turn back on, let Spotlight index from scratch.
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Originally Posted by reader50
Sounds like Spotlight is still counting the files to index. The progress bar would appear after it has built it's list, and knows how many are left to do. I'd suspect either disk damage (fsck rules that out) or Spotlight being confused by a damaged index file.
Try turning Spotlight off. Then use a utility to delete all the indexes. Turn back on, let Spotlight index from scratch.
Yup done ALL that previously.
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