On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:26 PM, gifutiger wrote:
Greetings All
I'm wondering if someone can give me a clue?
Every time that I index one of my external USB drives, the next time
that I load that disk onto the desktop
Spotlight doesn't seam to remember any of the items which were
indexed.
I'm indexing a 750Gb external USB drive, when I'm done the contents
will be available,
however if I eject the drive then remount a few days later, it knows
nothing of the contents.
Am I doing something that I shouldn't or do I have to keep it mounted
forever?
What version of OS X are you running? Spotlight was vastly improved
between 10.4 and 10.5.
Back when I was running 10.4 this happened all the time to me. The
solution was to stop the indexing on those drives, delete the
spotlight files, restart the indexing and walk away for 6-7 hours and
let Spotlight have the computer all to itself while it did it's thing.
After that it would run just fine for quite a while.
If this is an external drive being used on more than one Mac it could
be getting confused.
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