Could someone explain why mds is using so much CPU?

Could someone explain what mds is doing if my Mac has been indexed (don't see activity in Spotlight menu bar icon) & I haven't recently added a lot of files?
I noticed my Mac was slowing down for a while so I looked in Activity Monitor & it says mds is running at 60% CPU. Isn't this something to do with Spotlight indexing?

If you recently upgraded the OS or installed an application that includes a metadata parser for spotlight (such software generally comes in the form of a package instead of a single icon), it will force spotlight to reindex. Also, restoring from a backup does the same thing.
Also, if you used mdutil to disable spotlight indexing on the volume and then reenable it, it will force a reindexing.

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I know this isn't really the right place to ask, but could someone explain why when I open Portal 2, that I got off steam and spent a whole day downloading, keeps crashing when I click the Campaign/Single Player mode. It Freezes and then crashes. Help!

I know this isn't really the right place to ask...
Uhm, why don't you go to the right place, then? There are several Steam/Portal forums out there...

RT - could someone explain why this happens

Hi,
If I'm editing hdv and it begins to stutter during playback. Why when I change the RT setting from safe to unlimited and back to safe again, does the timeline now play without the stutter?
Thanks,
Matt
Yoga Maya Films - www.yogamayafilms.com
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Hey Max,
Thanks again. And sorry to continue a conversation that was solved, but...
With ProRes being a much higher bit rate than HDV I would've expected it to be even worse. Are you transcoding to some other format to edit HDV?
If that is making the problem go away, then that's cool, but would that mean that the HDV problem is in the processing power?
The strange thing is that when my system starts to stutter and not be able to cope - even with things like Motion, but also with HDV in the timline - my CPU is only sitting at around 60%, there's lots of free RAM, but still the timeline stutters with one track of HDV often.
Anyway, if I'm boring you don't worry, but this is the main issue I'm having on my system and I'd love to understand it better.
Could it be that the RAM in the graphics card is maxed out, or some cache in the graphics card - and if so, how can you empty that?
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Cool,
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Could someone explain why I get "Log on to Crystal Enterprise"?

Post Author: Rob Silver
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
I have created reports and subreports for several weeks but suddenly I tried to create a formula called:
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Post Author: Rob Silver
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
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Could someone explain please how to use the Birthday option?

I found the Birthday function in OS 4 on my iPhone but I don't understand where I have to enter info for this. I cannot find a label in iCal or the address book, how exactly is this used?

AndreasvanHaren wrote:
I found the Birthday function in OS 4 on my iPhone but I don't understand where I have to enter info for this. I cannot find a label in iCal or the address book, how exactly is this used?
It comes from AddressBook.
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Could someone explain this method of using forms

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WAMP for Windows
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http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
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Can someone explain why upgrading to PSE 12 resulted in two kinds of people tags?

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jlovettjr wrote:
I would have no problem with using the new People tabs except for two things:
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