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is Spotlight really taking 10hrs to index?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Boston, Ma
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So I just installed Tiger everything seems a bit slower. 1ghz TiBook 1gig ram 40 gig HD 7gigs free. anyway after setting up a few must have programs I go to check out this spotlight thing and it says it needs to index first. I Imagined it would take some time but 10 HOURS IS REDICULOUS! I'm hoping that it is just an estimated time and that cuz its running things seem to be going slow. Is it like that for everybody?
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: united states empire
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I'd say it took under an hour to index....I have 160gb of data on my machine or thereabouts...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Live at the BBQ
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On my powerbook (667 VGA) it estimated 11 hours, took about 8 (I left it to index overnight). Everything ran slower while indexing, but afterwards performance is great. Let it do it's thing, it's all for the better.
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"Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows... how can you guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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How big is the index? How much HD space does it take up?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
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My 160Gb drive took considerably longer than an hour to index. Maybe more like, uh, 12 or so? I've got about 24Gb free...
It DID seem like it would be done indexing after shorter stretches of time after installing, but then I'd get hideously anemic result sets for any of my searches. I finally left my system on all night (I disabled sleeping) and the next day Spotlight worked like a charm.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Down by the river
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My 80GB drive took about 45 minutes on a 400MHz Sawtooth upgraded to 1GHz.
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