Indexing

[amccallum1]

Hi hi. Running OS 12.7.6 on a 2015 MacBook Pro. Recently got a Western Digital 'My Book' external drive, connected via USB-A. Copied a couple of terabytes of stuff onto it from an old hard disk RAID from my just-recently-died old (2009!) Mac Pro.

All went well, except that search is working extremely slowly or not at all. I suspect that's because the OS hasn't had time to do all the indexing – I have some vague memory that it works in the background?

Is there anything I can do to speed up the indexing, or I should just leave the MacBook drive powered on overnight with the external drive plugged in?

Thanks All....

 

[BrianBaughn]

"Slowly" is one thing…"not at all" is another.

Do let it sit ON overnight and see if it completes indexing.

You can tell if it's indexing by trying a Spotlight search…it shows if it's indexing.