I know there have been threads on reindexing spotlight but I think this is slightly different.
On my uMB spotlight never worked well, and I didn't think much of it. It wouldn't find a lot of files and applications and I didn't go to the trouble of fixing it.
However, I had to send it in for a bad hard disk. It came back with a new hard disk (they put in a 320 GB hard disk, it was originally 250 GB with no explanation of why). They installed Leopard and iLife on the drive, so it was a completely fresh start.
Well, when I first started using it, spotlight said something like it would take 60 gazillion hours to index. And there were no files I had put on it yet. So I left it overnight and in the morning it had finished. It could find apps on the drive, but no new files I created. So I tried forcing it to re-index. At this point it simply got stuck at the estimating time to index for a few hours. So I tried forcing it to reindex a few more times and had the same thing happen--this is after only adding a few files to the brand new hard disk and OS install.
So I decided to use Apple's new expert service to save time on hold--the service hung up on me three times in the middle of working with a technician, each time they didn't call back. Sorry wanted to vent...anyhow they finally suggested I create a new admin user and force spotlight to reindex from there, which I did. And lo and behold, it could now find all my files back in my personal user account.
Well, what I didn't realize until now is that it has not been indexing the applications and files I have been adding back to the computer (and I haven't even added many). Even files I have created on this computer, just like a textedit document haven't been added.
I'm just wondering if there is any logical explanation for this. Could spotlight be affected by something other than the hard disk or OS install. It doesn't seem likely. But I was starting off with a brand new user account, and I was having strange issues before even adding files to the computer.
The only other unusual thing since I've gotten the computer back is that they annoyingly installed an old version of Leopard and all the apps so I had to download mad numbers of updates and when it was trying to install them it failed to install the iDVD update which I've never had happen before, but when I re-ran software update it worked fine. The error message said something like the iDVD software update could not be saved to disk.
I'd like to find out if there is a hardware issue. I've run verify disk and that comes out clean. I repair permissions and each time there's so much wrong but if I run it a minute later the exact same stuff is still wrong like it doesn't get fixed. Anyhow, Apple has told me that if this computer has any hardware problems in the next 90 days they will replace it. I am trying to be very moral about this, and I am not looking for trouble, but this has been annoying, strange, and has taken a lot of my time up since I've gotten the computer back.
Any ideas? Could it be the hard disk? Something else?
What's also strange is that the customer service rep I was working with said the depot found no hardware issues and reported no clicking of the hard disk like I heard. And said it was being sent back to me with no repairs done. And then it took them about a week and a half and it came back with this note saying it had the hard disk replaced and no explanation of why a larger disk, and the customer service rep says that it still says in the system no repairs were done and he's having me fax in the note included saying they did repairs.
This is the hard disk info:
TOSHIBA MK3253GSX:
Capacity: 298.09 GB
Model: TOSHIBA MK3253GSX
Revision: LW005B
Does that look like a drive Apple normally uses?
On my uMB spotlight never worked well, and I didn't think much of it. It wouldn't find a lot of files and applications and I didn't go to the trouble of fixing it.
However, I had to send it in for a bad hard disk. It came back with a new hard disk (they put in a 320 GB hard disk, it was originally 250 GB with no explanation of why). They installed Leopard and iLife on the drive, so it was a completely fresh start.
Well, when I first started using it, spotlight said something like it would take 60 gazillion hours to index. And there were no files I had put on it yet. So I left it overnight and in the morning it had finished. It could find apps on the drive, but no new files I created. So I tried forcing it to re-index. At this point it simply got stuck at the estimating time to index for a few hours. So I tried forcing it to reindex a few more times and had the same thing happen--this is after only adding a few files to the brand new hard disk and OS install.
So I decided to use Apple's new expert service to save time on hold--the service hung up on me three times in the middle of working with a technician, each time they didn't call back. Sorry wanted to vent...anyhow they finally suggested I create a new admin user and force spotlight to reindex from there, which I did. And lo and behold, it could now find all my files back in my personal user account.
Well, what I didn't realize until now is that it has not been indexing the applications and files I have been adding back to the computer (and I haven't even added many). Even files I have created on this computer, just like a textedit document haven't been added.
I'm just wondering if there is any logical explanation for this. Could spotlight be affected by something other than the hard disk or OS install. It doesn't seem likely. But I was starting off with a brand new user account, and I was having strange issues before even adding files to the computer.
The only other unusual thing since I've gotten the computer back is that they annoyingly installed an old version of Leopard and all the apps so I had to download mad numbers of updates and when it was trying to install them it failed to install the iDVD update which I've never had happen before, but when I re-ran software update it worked fine. The error message said something like the iDVD software update could not be saved to disk.
I'd like to find out if there is a hardware issue. I've run verify disk and that comes out clean. I repair permissions and each time there's so much wrong but if I run it a minute later the exact same stuff is still wrong like it doesn't get fixed. Anyhow, Apple has told me that if this computer has any hardware problems in the next 90 days they will replace it. I am trying to be very moral about this, and I am not looking for trouble, but this has been annoying, strange, and has taken a lot of my time up since I've gotten the computer back.
Any ideas? Could it be the hard disk? Something else?
What's also strange is that the customer service rep I was working with said the depot found no hardware issues and reported no clicking of the hard disk like I heard. And said it was being sent back to me with no repairs done. And then it took them about a week and a half and it came back with this note saying it had the hard disk replaced and no explanation of why a larger disk, and the customer service rep says that it still says in the system no repairs were done and he's having me fax in the note included saying they did repairs.
This is the hard disk info:
TOSHIBA MK3253GSX:
Capacity: 298.09 GB
Model: TOSHIBA MK3253GSX
Revision: LW005B
Does that look like a drive Apple normally uses?