Heya, I can pipe up on this (if only with personal experience). I went through the same thing, since I wanted to have my all partitions (>80GB) "indexed", despite that I remain hazy on the advantages (I believe you'd still find 98% of all the files your seeking).
I got through it by really running it day and night until it, the Sherlock indexing genius, had worked its way through all the files. Once, I'd had made it through once, each subsequent time was a lot faster, often taking only an hour or so. I assume that at that point it keeps the old index on file and only looks for changes. I'd just let it run - but understand how disconcerting it can be. I recall seeing the time remaining up there around 60+ hours once! Good Luck. On 10/22/02 18:20, "John Koen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Gail > > I remember this problem. I'm running only OS X now, so the memory is > fading, but I had the problem only on my Beige G3, never on my Pismo. > In the indexing preferences, you should uncheck all the languages you > don't need. If you have more than one language checked and it still > takes a long time, try unchecking everything except English (assuming > you're running the OS in English, of course). If that doesn't help, > hopefully someone else will speak up, but I assume you could trash FBC > Indexing preferences (if it exists; I'm really out on a limb at this > point). Deleting Sherlock preferences might interfere with your > Sherlock settings, custom search thingies, etc. If you don't have any, > then I guess that would be safe. But I think I remember FBC Indexing > prefs. > > It still took a long time on the Beige (233 Mhz), but it was manageable. > > On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 04:28 PM, BGbytes wrote: >> A time or two I was going to make use of the FBC Indexing of the HD as >> found >> via the Sherlock 2. But because it takes forever, I never finish. I >> tried >> again Monday thru Tuesday, and I let it run 16 hours... > >> My curiosity question is: Rather than the amount of "time remaining" >> to >> complete the job getting smaller, the time keeps getting higher. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
