On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>> It's the same index. Drag your main hard drive to the Spotlight "Privacy"
>> pane, wait a few seconds, then delete it from the Privacy pane.
>
> WOW. Is it normal for the space used by the index to increase by a
> factor of two?
>
> I checked my free space, deleted the index, checked my new free space,
> rebuilt the index, and checked my final free space. The amount that
> was chewed up was twice as much as was released.
Given that your old index was missing all its content search information, I
wouldn't be surprised to learn that constituted the bulk of any index.
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