Yeah, I've been a Mac user for a long time. I don't just leave stuff in
my Library folder forever, nor should anyone. Free apps like CleanApp
help remove everything when you remove apps. Otherwise, you can still go
into your Library folder and delete settings and preferences as needed.
You can unhide the ~/Library folder with:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
The idea behind backing up and restoring my user folder is so I don't
have to re-configure everything after wiping and reinstalling OS X.
This is actually something Apple does very well. When I restored
everything, and rebooted, every single one of my most used apps (Adium,
Thunderbird, Chrome, Tweetdeck) launched perfectly just like they were
before...without having to go through and re-setup all my accounts.
The "most users" you mention should not just blindly attempt what I did,
not without researching and planning it out beforehand. I consider
myself to be rather experienced, and know how OS X works on the
frontend, and backend in BSD (Darwin).
Jeff
On 11/2/14 7:53 PM, Michael Crawford wrote:
Your user folder from your original installation will include a lot of
settings, preferences and the like from applications that were part of
your older OS install. Potentially that might not be what you want, I
don't really know.
Recent versions of OS X hide your ~/Library folder in the Finder, but
you can get into it with:
$ cd ; open Library
There is a lot of stuff in there, put there by Apple or by third-party
App developers. I don't think it's such a good idea that the Library
folder is completely hidden, as most users won't know it's there,
won't know to back it up and so on. But of course Apple figures
everyone just uses Spotlight. :-/
I don't use Spotlight, I have grey hair, my face is getting wrinkled
so I drop .tar.gzs onto USB sticks.
Mike
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jeff Singleton <gvib...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/2/14 12:57 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
On Sunday November 02 2014 12:06:35 Jeff Singleton wrote:
Back story: In an attempt to figure out why the services mds and
mdworker were running away with my CPU. Nothing I did resolved this,
including putting every single folder except /Applications in the
exception list for Spotlight. This is where I started editing
Did that include switching off indexing for the whole (boot) disk (mdutil
-i off) followed by a reboot? That ought to have wiped your spotlight
folder, presuming that the most likely performance culprit would be updating
an existing (huge) database file ...
R.
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Trust me. I tried everything. Resetting the SMC, PRAM, permissions,
manually deleting the .Spotlight folder from /. Anything I could find on any
Apple related blog/forum, I tried it.
Even going so far as to exclude lots of folders from my home Library folder,
the same for System Library folder, my external drive, Bootcamp
partition...none of it mattered.
The only thing that had any affect was to stop the mdworker services and the
syslogd service. That is the only time the CPU usage dropped and the fans
started slowing. Of course, right after I rebooted, they started back up
again.
Somewhere in the middle of all that I probably forgot to revert an edit on
one of the plist files and thats when it stopped booting to the GUI.
Single-user mode was the only way, which required manually mounting my
external drives and copying my user folder to it.
Booted to my Mavericks USB installer, completely wiped the main drive,
installed Mavericks, and upgraded to Yosemite. Then booted to single-user
again, and restored my user home folder.
From that point, mdworker did its initial indexing, and then dropped down to
normal usage. Now the fans only spin up when I am actually doing something
like compiling something under MacPorts.
Jeff
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