10.7.5 Quick Fix Back to 10.7.4

OK so you've updated to 10.7.5 and Time Machine is now slow and spotlight is forever running.
Well I just couldn't be bothered with waiting for Apple to sort this out.
The simple solution for me was to restore the whole system from Time Machine.
Here's how.
Make sure you copy all the stuff that you haven't backed up manually to a spare drive.
This fix will restore everything including 10.7.4 and wipe out all unbacked up data.
Hold command R down and reboot with your time machine drive connected.
You'll then have a few options to restore, so select time machine, find the file in the list thatis prior to 10.7.5 (it shows this in the listing)
Hit restore and depending on how much data, there will be an estimated time displayed. In my case about 45 minutes.
Spotlight is now fine and re-indexing within Minutes
Time Machine is back to normal and does not Hang.
I hope this is of help to someone if you're in a fix and as frustrated as I was.
Problem now solved till Apple do a better update.

BrownBrady wrote:
One of the advice I followed was to erase my backup drive. Now I have no 10.7.4 to restore from
OMG, so sorry for you.  There has been so many dangerous workarounds suggested when the option favoured by Apple techs is restore to 10.7.4. Pity the politics prevents them publishing the advice, but it would not be possible for anyone not using TM so they probably are just keeping quiet til .6 arrives.
The advice given elsewhere to disable Spotlight is only good for a once only fix to enable one final TM backup before reverting to the day before the disastrous update was innocently accepted in good faith. That at least allows you to get back files worked on in the meantime.
My only problem with this shift back to the good 10.7.4 has been that I also upgraded Aperture so all photos added since the crap update are in a version of aperture library that may not open in 10.7.4. And I lost the will to even try and workaround that one.

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