So I Used Spotlight For The First Time Today

[Mr. Anderson]

And the beachball is still spinning on the app - what gives?

I was just looking to get my old bookmarks.plist from jaguar and copy it over to Tiger and it seems to be locked up? Any ideas?

Thanks,

D

 

[macdon401]

Trouble...?

I hate to tell you this, but a couple weeks ago all my trouble started when spotlight started updating itself after I installed a trial version of Photoshop CS2, hours passed, I sought help here, then beachballs started to appear, then ... my hair almost fell out...SMART warning "disk is failing, back up as much as you can..." I'd start checking hardware, better safe than sorry, my point is it all started with a problem in Spotlight!
Good luck!
R

 

[mkrishnan]

So do you think that spotlight just pushed the disk hard enough to make it go over the edge? Or that there was a problem in the index area, all along, and it didn't get noticed until you spotlighted?

Mr. Anderson, there's a thread here somewhere about Spotlight ending up with a bad index file... it sounds like this might be your problem. It is slow for me, but has never terminally beachballed (or destroyed my hard drive. I use spotlight daily). The solution to the index problem is to delete a file in the root of the hard drive with terminal. Let me see if I can find the thread.

EDIT: https://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-123403.html

It's sad, though, that the very first time you use Spotlight, you have such a problem.... I believe you will have slowed performance for an hour or two while the re-index occurs.

 

[virus1]

I hate to tell you this, but a couple weeks ago all my trouble started when spotlight started updating itself after I installed a trial version of Photoshop CS2, hours passed, I sought help here, then beachballs started to appear, then ... my hair almost fell out...SMART warning "disk is failing, back up as much as you can..." I'd start checking hardware, better safe than sorry, my point is it all started with a problem in Spotlight!
Good luck!
R

spotlight does not have the ability to physically screw up the drive. smart status directly reflects what is going on with the hard drive hardware