On 30 Oct 2011, at 17:17 , Jerry LeVan wrote: > Hi, > > I have ordered a new MacBook Pro to more or less replace my older > Santa Rosa based MacBook Pro ( the Graphics subsystem is becoming > unreliable ). > > The older mbp also has a spotlight problem, scanning the disk causes > spotlight to crash. ( Apple told me the problem was probably some > corrupt files, but could not suggest any way to narrow the problem).
Go to System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy. Clear the Spotlight index by clicking the '+' and adding all your volumes to Privacy. Then remove them from Privacy, but _before_ the indexing process starts up, add a few folders of your choice to Privacy. This will keep Spotlight from scanning those folders. If the system crashes, you know the bad file(s) are elsewhere. Clear the index again, then add more folders, repeat until you don't get the crash anymore. The bad files should be in the last batch of folders you added. Clear privacy, verify that the bad files are where you think they are by adding back all folders except the last batch, then go into the last batch and look at subfolders. Repeat until you ID which subfolder(s) have the bad file(s). Note that this will be a major pain to actually do. Simpler solution: back up entire volume using something other than Time Machine; Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! will usually work. If those apps, especially CCC, encounter bad file(s) they usually keep going but log the file(s) which caused trouble. Fire up Console and read the log. Identify and replace bad file(s). If bad file(s) aren't important, simply nuke the original drive and restore from the backup. Problem done. > > Since spotlight does not work, time machine based backups are out > the window. > > Anyway, I like Apple Remote Desktop and I used the Mac App store to > install a copy on the old machine. > > The question is: how can I get ARD installed on the new machine? Same way you normally install it. > > I am afraid that using the Migration Assistant might propagate the > corruption that exists on the old machine. So fix the old one first. > > When I check the Mac App store on my other Macs for ARD, the store > wants eighty dollars for a download ;( That's what they want. > > Any suggestions on how I can get ARD installed on the new machine > when it arrives? Fix the problem and then migrate. > > Does anyone understand how the Mac App store works? > > I can update Xcode on a couple of my macs but the old mbp > refuses to download any Xcode updates ( it tells me use > the original download machine ). I don't have that problem here. Need more data. > > So far I have been finding one of my machines that will let me download > the Xcode installer and then moving it to the other machine to do > the install…Seems clumsy. > > Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
