http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/spotlightindex Questions tagged with 'spotlightindex' at Ask MetaFilter. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:57:11 -0800 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:57:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/75113/Does%2Danyone%2Dknow%2Dhow%2Dto%2Ddeal%2Dwith%2Dfrozen%2Dbarberpole%2DSpotlight%2Dindexing%2Din%2DMac%2DOS%2DX%2DLeopard Will the Spotlight indexing on my Leopard update never end? It's been on blue barber pole for 12 hours now and it's dragging everything with it. What can I do? Thank you for taking an interest! Last night, I slid a brand new shop-bought Mac OS X Leopard into my old-model 24-inch iMac, updating from Tiger. Everything went well but after 3 or 4 hours Spotlight was still indexing away, about a quarter of the way down the blue pole, indicating the usual estimate of 543000 hours to go. Today it's been going for another 9 hours and worse: there is no longer any progress line, just a stripey barber pole thingy. <br> <br> Possibly useful information for any kind heart: the mdworker on the Activity Monitor swings between 30 and 70; my Active RAM is around 1.16 GB; I only have about 300 GB on my 500 GB hard drive; I've disconnected my external hard drives (didn't make any difference) and tried rebooting and disconnecting for a few minutes. Otherwise, everything seems to be working - but very, very slowly.<br> <br> Any ideas? I did get through to Apple support and was sent Capture Data software (which has been dragging for 2 hours now), which I'm to mail back to them. The guy I spoke too was very nice but I was his first Leopard complaint so he hadn't heard of indexing problems. Needless to say, any help will be much appreciated! tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.75113 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:57:11 -0800 leopard leopardinstall mac MacOSX10.5 spotlight spotlightindex MiguelCardoso