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spotlight indexing runs at every reboot/boot ! never had that beforef
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BrianBaughn
macrumors G4
Nah idts ,at least I've been using cleanmymacX for long and never had that
What you see in my spotlight search is unrelated ,was just a random search
Why u ask ? Have u been getting the Sam experience bcz of cleanmymacX?
CleanMyMacX can delete the spotlight index, which would force spotlight to rebuilt it all from scratch, which can take a very long time if the entire drive has index been wiped
If it is happening constantly and you've left it long enough to complete ( 12 hours +) then you might want to clear the index and allow to rebuild from scratch - either by using CleanMyMac to do it or removing the drive from Spotlight (add it to the excluded list in Settings>Spotlight> Privacy) restart and then take the drive back off the excluded list to make Spotlight reindex from scratch
The problem with Spotlight is the Privacy settings, at least on my M1 Air/Monterey install are not holding. I have to check the list every time I mount a drive. Those settings are not in the plist. Anyone know where they are?
Is it connected to an external drive?
If not hardware that's not meshing well, it must be some software you've run.
If not hardware that's not meshing well, it must be some software you've run.
even with the drive plugged out it is still present so ye SW probably...but I don't see what
Start it in safe mode and see if it still happens. If not, yes software. You can check your startup items for clues.
To my knowledge, that’s not how Spotlight works. Placing a formerly Spotlighted drive on the Privacy list does not wipe the index nor result in a reindex from scratch. Unless something changed fairly recently, that was not the way Spotlight worked in the past.