Feeling so stupid right now
Last night I got impatient and decided to try installing snow leopard to an external usb drive that I had lying around. The goal being to test out snow leopard without compromising my work computer (13MBP)
Completely fresh install on the external worked better than I could have imagined. I was patting myself on the back at this point
And then I did something stupid: I had read by many that when you install or make huge changes to os x spotlight indexing happens afterwards. Well I didn't want anything on snow leopard affecting my internal harddrive. I was worried that spotlight might do this so I went into spotlight preferences and excluded my internal hard drive from spotlight indexing (put it on the privacy list)
And then I boot back into my normal leopard 10.5.7 on my internal drive and check the spotlight preferences. My internal drive is STILL excluded from spotlight even though I thought this change would only effect the snow leopard install!
So I took my internal drive off the privacy list and now that mdworker process (spotlight I presume?) is going crazy in activity monitor. I assume the entire drive is being indexed.
My questions:
Should I just let mdworker continue? Will it finish and eventually go back to normal? Anything else I should worry about?
I would like to continue using my external snow leopard install. Does the spotlight indexing osx does change the volume that is being indexed? is it something I should worry about?
Any help appreciated and sorry for the long post!
Last night I got impatient and decided to try installing snow leopard to an external usb drive that I had lying around. The goal being to test out snow leopard without compromising my work computer (13MBP)
Completely fresh install on the external worked better than I could have imagined. I was patting myself on the back at this point
And then I did something stupid: I had read by many that when you install or make huge changes to os x spotlight indexing happens afterwards. Well I didn't want anything on snow leopard affecting my internal harddrive. I was worried that spotlight might do this so I went into spotlight preferences and excluded my internal hard drive from spotlight indexing (put it on the privacy list)
And then I boot back into my normal leopard 10.5.7 on my internal drive and check the spotlight preferences. My internal drive is STILL excluded from spotlight even though I thought this change would only effect the snow leopard install!
So I took my internal drive off the privacy list and now that mdworker process (spotlight I presume?) is going crazy in activity monitor. I assume the entire drive is being indexed.
My questions:
Should I just let mdworker continue? Will it finish and eventually go back to normal? Anything else I should worry about?
I would like to continue using my external snow leopard install. Does the spotlight indexing osx does change the volume that is being indexed? is it something I should worry about?
Any help appreciated and sorry for the long post!