Hey. For a while now, I've been having an issue with the "mds" process always running and eating up my system resources. I finally figured out that this is being caused by spotlight indexing my bootcamp volume each time I restart OS X. I have read that OS X doesn't actually save the bootcamp index so it must index it each time you boot into OS X. I tried adding my bootcamp partition to the list of drives I do not want spotlight to index, however, each time I restart OS X, it seems to take itself out of that list. Any ideas? I am really tired of dealing with this because it slows my mac down to a degree of where it's not usable. I would really appreciate some kind of answer to solve this issue. Thanks guys.
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OS X bootcamp indexing problem
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same problems here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2711846&start=15&tstart=-1
reading that one i solved mine.
I am using paragon NFTS for mac to be able to write to bootcamp. With that driver enabled you will be able to exclude bootcamp in system preferences > spotlight, like @satcomer suggested.
After a reboot, bootcamp will still be excluded.
succes.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2711846&start=15&tstart=-1
reading that one i solved mine.
I am using paragon NFTS for mac to be able to write to bootcamp. With that driver enabled you will be able to exclude bootcamp in system preferences > spotlight, like @satcomer suggested.
After a reboot, bootcamp will still be excluded.
succes.