> the mds process dies with a variety of ugly errors, access violation, assert > errors and > a variety of other excusesâ¦
The following works for us whenever we have an out-of-control mds/mdworker process. As root, do launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist (may take a few seconds to complete) Remove all user folders in /var/tmp/mds if any. Remove all folders in /var/db/Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/ Wait a few seconds and do launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist Spotlight will now be very busy reindexing everything for a while. Best, Paul _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
