On my main work machine ( Santa Rosa Mac Book Pro ), the metadata scanner does not work…
I think this started way back with Leopard. the mds process dies with a variety of ugly errors, access violation, assert errors and a variety of other excuses… Other than the loss of spotlight the machine seems to work ok, unfortunately Time Machine tries indexing the image that it creates and mds fails with the same sort of error messages so I cannot use Time Machine as a line of defense against fs corruption. I have used Disk Utility and Tech Tool Pro to check the disk ( ~1.4 million files) and they can find no problems. Apple support seemed to think that the problem was caused by some corrupt files but gave no hints on how to find the rascals ( the crash dumps generally did not provide this piece of info). SuperDuper is able to backup the internal drive and restore the rascal. I have at least ten years of work on the machine and am loath to start from scratch… Has anyone encountered this sort of corruption and found a solution? Today I sent a query to the Disk Warrior folks to see if they thought that Disk Warrior might be able to find and correct my problems. I had hoped that upgrading to lion might of wiped out the bad files, but turning indexing back on via mdutil causes the same sort of failures. Thanks for any info… Jerry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
