Constant reindex of spotlight

[SC68Cal]

Okay,

Spotlight is acting up. I tried searching for something and spotlight goes offline to reindex my filesystem. Literally a minute later it's ready. Try searching again, then it decides to reindex it again!

It's been doing this for probably a few hours now. Did the whole remove index thing, turn off spotlight and then turn it back on. Not having any luck.

An example:

I searched for "java" and I get results, then suddenly it'll close out and reindex again after it goes about 4000 results.

Help?

 

[mad jew]

Try removing com.apple.spotlight.plist from the Preferences folder and then reindexing Spotlight again. Give it a few hours to complete the index.

 

[SC68Cal]

Sorry to drudge up an old thread.

It took nearly 24 hrs for spotlight to build up the content index. I believe that Spotlight does a simple index just to build up a database for filenames and locations, then it will work in the background munching on metadata and content inside of pdfs and text files.

I just have, a lot of text files and such. Lots, and lots, and lots.

I've never experienced a full-reindex, and I never knew how much junk I've accumulated over the years.....

 

[mad jew]

That's still a pretty long time. Is it all working for you now?

 

[Fukui]

Yea, I'm curious if that worked for you, because I'm having the same problem, and it didn't start until I started using filevaut........

 

[mad jew]

FileVault is buggy. There are a few cases on these boards of people losing their data from messed up encrypted Home folders. If possible, keep your secret information in an encrypted disk image on a regular non-FileVault account. It's much safer and involves the same encryption.