When Spotlight indexes an entire drive it can take hours so it may be a case of just letting it get on with it. I believe that it will also try to index information on drives when connected (removable USB drive for example) but obviously that's usually over within a very short time, depending on the size of the drive.
Use Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility to verify the correctness of the drive. There's probably nothing wrong it's just that sitting there while Spotlight does it's thing is enough to make you think something is wrong. Last night I used DU to verify my Time Machine backup drive and when it got to the "Multi-Linked" files bit it seemed like it was frozen, except that the disk was making a noise. However, a TM backup has oodles of multi-linked files and once it had eventually got past that it said that the disk was fine. Stephen On 23 Feb 2009, at 10:39, john.hodges wrote: > Hi again, everyone, > > I have a colleague whose MacBook started to play up. Having done a > backup, he erased and installed 10.5 again and has carried out full > updates. However, since then Spotlight was continuously indexing the > drive and it became virtually unusable. He found a method using > Terminal to stop Spotlight. Everything speeded up and was working > fine. He plugged in a memory stick and the indexing started again. > > Does anyone know if it could be a bad sector (when he erased the > drive he wrote ‘0’s but it didn’t fall over) or something software? > > Suggestions, as always, will be welcome. > > Many thanks, > John > > > "Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
