Spotlight completely broken?

[nillls]

Hi all!
After using superduper to move OS X to a new HD, spotlight has completely broken, and the computer takes a bit longer time to boot. Other than that it's running fine. However the spotlight-problem is kinda bugging me.

Tried everything in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/239549/
+this:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
repairing disk rights
etc etc. Any suggestions beside a clean install?

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[misterredman]

What OS version? Leopard? Tiger?

You could try rebuilding the index with Onyx;

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

Or try what is explained here:

http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2007/08/29/rebuilding-spotlights-index-on-os-x-manually/

 

[nillls]

Hi, and thanks for the reply. I'm on leopard. Already tried rebuilding with Onyx, without success. This is what I get in terminal with the guide posted by you:

 

[Eidorian]

You can exclude the volume you want and the include it again. That will rebuild the Spotlight index on it.

 

[nillls]

You can exclude the volume you want and the include it again. That will rebuild the Spotlight index on it.

Read my first post again: I already tried that. However, performing one of the commands on the link posted by misterredman allowed spotlight to start reindexing my HD. Hopefully it will solve my problems...

 

[Eidorian]

Have you nuked the index via Terminal yet?

 

[nillls]

Have you nuked the index via Terminal yet?

If that's what he's doing in this link, then yes:
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2007/08/29/rebuilding-spotlights-index-on-os-x-manually/

Spotlight's indexing as we speak. Hopefully it will solve the slow boot-problem as well, if not I'll get back to you all. Thanks so much for the help, greatly appreciated.

 

[Eidorian]

If that's what he's doing in this link, then yes:
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2007/08/29/rebuilding-spotlights-index-on-os-x-manually/

Spotlight's indexing as we speak. Hopefully it will solve the slow boot-problem as well, if not I'll get back to you all. Thanks so much for the help, greatly appreciated.

Yes disabling the spotlight daemon, using rm to delete the index, and then enabling the daemon again.

 

[nillls]

This all worked fine, however when booting up now, the apple logo takes an awful long time to show. After that it's booting fine, however. Is it possible that superduper messed anything else up on the drive? Can i fix it somehow?

 

[frenetic]

Make sure that you have selected the correct start up drive:

system preferences/ start-up disk

Frenetic

 

[misterredman]

If you haven't already clear all the caches with Onyx. It will makes the next startup slower but may resolve the problem.

 

[nillls]

Make sure that you have selected the correct start up drive:

system preferences/ start-up disk

Frenetic

Thank you all, that solved it!