Spotlight has been driving me nuts for days. There is a file somewhere in ~/Library/Application Support/ that is causing Spotlight (mds specifically) to use 100% CPU and stop indexing.
I've tried all the usual tricks of deleting indices, turning search on/off, and deleting kernel/system/user caches, all to no avail.
Currently, I have ~/Library/Application Support/ in the Spotlight blocklist, so Spotlight works acceptably well, but Time Machine doesn't because it relies on Spotlight indexing and I'd really like to have a backup of my Application Support folder...
Does anyone know of any software that has a track record for bollixing Spotlight? Or is there a faster way to narrow down the search than to put the folders in Application Support one by one in Spotlight's Privacy list and see which prevents the mds race?
I've tried following mdworker processes in Activity Monitor, but so far there has only been an mds process, and no mdworkers, when mds goes postal.
I've tried all the usual tricks of deleting indices, turning search on/off, and deleting kernel/system/user caches, all to no avail.
Currently, I have ~/Library/Application Support/ in the Spotlight blocklist, so Spotlight works acceptably well, but Time Machine doesn't because it relies on Spotlight indexing and I'd really like to have a backup of my Application Support folder...
Does anyone know of any software that has a track record for bollixing Spotlight? Or is there a faster way to narrow down the search than to put the folders in Application Support one by one in Spotlight's Privacy list and see which prevents the mds race?
I've tried following mdworker processes in Activity Monitor, but so far there has only been an mds process, and no mdworkers, when mds goes postal.