Thanks Graham and Jason for your advice.
I took the drive out of Spotlight's list but that did not seem to help.
I also used Disk Utility to Repair the disk. It took ages but did not
report any problems at the end.
I then used Drive Genius to defrag (what is going on with that huge
spinning disk graphic?).
Unfortunately this seems to have put Time Machine completely out of
action. It is asking me to set it up again. The partition it is on
will not mount or be repaired ("First Aid failed") in Disk Utility.
It looks like I will have to erase it and start again!
Richard
On 17 Mar 2009, at 12:19, Graham Street wrote:
>
> it might be very heavily fragmented. Try running Disk Utility,
> Diskwarrior and consider a defrag system like iDefrag.
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