Carolyn, BTW, no need to write me anything further. you've been put on my
block sender's list.
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From: "carolyn Haas" <chaas0...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: for those who's macbooks are running hot, I have a sollution
This is ridiculous! Please apply with a grain of salt and at least two
shots of tiquila!!!
On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! This is not! going to be for
the faint at heart. It's all software-sided, you won't be taking things
apart, LOL! but it's still ***not!*** something I advise a nuby trying to
take on unless you follow my instructions to, a, T!
Again, let's get a few things straight: I, nor any mods, nor any members,
nor Apple will be held responsible for anything that may occur from doing
th3e following process. You agree by doing this to hold everyone on the
list including myself as well as Apple totally blameless. Though I'm not
saying to do this, it's a sure fix.
First of all, the problem at hand:
I hate saying this, but after hours of research the past few days, I've
determined that it's the mds server daemon that is causing the
over-heating of up to 2 thousand rpm on the fan and about 85 degrees
celcius, which is, by the way, over twice! gasp! Yikes! what the fan temp,
should be!
I'm not totally sure why, but I tell you, it has to do with the way
Spotlight in Lion indexes things. for those who like Lion, I'll say this:
Fine! leave it on and don't do this procedure, but I'll also say, don't
come crying to me nor Apple when your logicboard fries from overheating.
I say this not to scare you, but, realisticly, if you're anything like me,
your fans will be running about twice as fast and your smc will be about
twice as hot.
Mark, I'm sorry if I'm out of line by posting these directions, but as I
am saying again and again after again, You! do this soly! at your own
risk!
Let's get started! I'll say again, follow me to a T! If you don't, then
don't look at me if something doesn't work, or breaks.
1. Quick with command+Q every single app you currently have opened,
obviously except for Mail, so that you can keep reading how to do this.
2. Go to system preferences, then to Spotlight
3. On the search results tab, vo+right arrow over to the table, and
interact with it, then in the first column, uncheck every? single one! of
the boxes on each row. I know, you're going WTF! That's gonna disable my
spotlight! Yes. It will. You're correct. %That's the only? way we're
for now, until an update comes out gonna fix this. I'm sorry, it's either
this, or have an over-heating logicboard.
4. Now, go to the exclusions tab, and vo+Space on the add button.
. In the browser window, interact with the browser, then hit
command+shift+C to go to computer.
6. locate Macintosh HD. don't! open it, just arrow to and select it. I
repeat: don't! open it, just highlight it.
7. Stop interacting with the browser, and go to the open/choose button,
or whatever it's called, can't remember exactly.
8. When told this could effect other applications from the search feature
working, just say yes/ok to add it to the exclusions list. Trust me,
you'll be fine.
9. Press command+W to close System Preferences.
O? K! Now, for the really brutal work! I know I've said this before, but
I say again, follow me, to? a, T!
1. Open your Utilities folder with command+shift+U, then command+O on
terminal.app.
2. Disable the indexing of spotlight by typing
sudo mdsutil -a -i off
Then press return.
Type your administrator password, then hit return.
Great! Now indexing should be disabled.
3. Now, unload the spotlight daemonn by typing:
sudo launchctl unload -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata/mds/plist
Then press return. You may again need to enter your password, but
probably not.
If you get a message that the daemon already is unloaded, then you're
done! If not, that should unload things, at which point you're done,
either way!
Now, if you really wanna be a smart butt, and totally make the spotllight
menu bar item totally vannish for the time being, in terminal type the
following two commands. I should add all these commands are case
sensitive, so if you messed up above, it's ok, you didn't do any harm,
just go do 'em again.
Here's the command to make the spotlight disappear. I'd not advise doing
this, but if you really? want to, here's what to type:
sudo chmod 600
/System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
Then for the change to take effect, type:
killall SystemUIServer
And hit return.
Then quit Terminal with command+Q.
Boom! Congradulations, no more spotlight, and boom! no more hot computer!
Once I've been notified that Apple has made an update to address this,
I'll write another e-mail post on how to undo all this crap.
Again, I didn't say this was for the faint of heart, and if something blew
up in your face along the way, again, I didn't say! to do this! I said,
do it soly at your own risk.
Chris.
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