"Indexing media" problem.

[hanzon]

For months, everytime I click spotlight it says "Indexing media" and it won't let me put anything in my media, or open anything because it just crashed my computer and says "application not responding"

It started doing this out of the blue, I never did any updates or changed anything to my knowledge.

How do I stop it doing this and get it back to normal? is there any way? I don't even know what "Indexing media" means.

Thanks a lot, any help much appreciated. I only have a basic knowledge of computers so please speak in the simplest way possible, thank you!

 

[Rhalliwell1]

For months, everytime I click spotlight it says "Indexing media" and it won't let me put anything in my media, or open anything because it just crashed my computer and says "application not responding"

It started doing this out of the blue, I never did any updates or changed anything to my knowledge.

How do I stop it doing this and get it back to normal? is there any way? I don't even know what "Indexing media" means.

Thanks a lot, any help much appreciated. I only have a basic knowledge of computers so please speak in the simplest way possible, thank you!

What is Media? Do you have an external drive called Media?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Check your activity monitor, which is in the Utilities folder, in the Applications folder. Is the mdworker process using 100% of CPU time, or close to it? You're not alone in this "runaway mdworker" problem. Sometimes, rebooting the Mac cures this problem, so you may want to try that first. If that doesn't work, disconnect all non-essential devices (basically, everything connected to FireWire/USB ports except the keyboard and mouse), and restart again. If the problem doesn't recur, then the cause is one of your external devices.