{"id":1611,"date":"2011-10-02T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T07:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2011-09-28T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:58:17","slug":"osx-spotlight-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/osx-spotlight-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"OSX: Spotlight problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/spotlight.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spotlight\" width=\"216\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1612\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick OSX tip:<\/strong> if you&#8217;re finding that your OSX system is quite busy even though you haven&#8217;t asked anything of it, check to see if the processes &#8220;mds&#8221; and &#8220;mdworker&#8221; are chewing up CPU cycles (view active processes in Activity Monitor). <\/p>\n<p>If so, then this is Spotlight indexing your hard drive. If it seems excessive, try going into <em>System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy<\/em> and adding your whole hard drive. This will stop Spotlight from indexing it and everything should calm down for a while. After a few minutes, take your whole hard drive off of Privacy so that Spotlight will index it again. <\/p>\n<p>This process seems to solve over-indexing problems of Spotlight. It will index a bit once you take your hard drive off of Privacy, but it will index a normal amount, instead of hours and hours on end. I&#8217;ve had this problem on several machines, especially when migrating to a new system or installing a new hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this process will not make Spotlight work better. It&#8217;ll still take forever to find anything useful. But at least its indexing won&#8217;t be destroying your battery life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>Quick OSX tip:<\/strong> if you&#8217;re finding that your OSX system is quite busy even though you haven&#8217;t asked anything of it, check to see if the processes &#8220;mds&#8221; and &#8220;mdworker&#8221; are chewing up CPU cycles (view active processes in Activity Monitor). <\/p>\n<p>If so,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/osx-spotlight-problem\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tips","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}