Need Spotlight to index a few folders only

I'm in Spotlight ****. I basically want to disable it but Logic uses Spotlight to find sounds, so I need to index a few folders in the Library/AppSupport and User/Library/AppSupport only. The problem is that I can add volumes and folders to the privacy area, but these folders I want indexed are nested in folders with lots of other folders. So short of adding hundreds of items to my Privacy area, how do I do the reverse.....have Spotlight ignore everything but a few select folders?
Also, since I can't narrow down to the few folders I need, I've ended up with around 100gb of info that SL is indexing. It's saying that it will take a little over 7 million hours to index. This seems a little high to me. Anyone know how long it takes to index 1gb?
thanks

Unless you've having serious I/O performance problem (perhaps not even realizing it) your spotlight index wont take nearly as long as you might think. The first-time index usually takes a couple of hours. I see you have an older machine (dual G5) based on your signature. If that's the machine you're using then it could take a bit longer since the newer Intel CPUs are vastly faster -- but much of the time isn't CPU-bound but rather I/O bound (it'll slow you down but it wont slow you down that much).
You could be having an I/O problem and not realize it.
Things that would slow you down:
If you're using external (vs. internal) drives then the type of I/O might have a big impact.
Since you have an older Mac (G5) it's possible your USB is the older USB 1.1 (my PowerBook G4 only supported USB 1.1) and a disk connected via USB 1.1 would crawl.
External firewire drives are typically very fast but I've noticed that if you daisy-chain several Firewire devices together it can radically drop performance. If that's the case for you then I'd suggest disconnecting everything from the Firewire bus except the drives that need indexing while the index is happening.
If your drives are very full (e.g. 95% full or more) then the data may be fragmented and this can really slow you down depending on how bad it gets (I've seen it get so bad where I/O operations that should have taken 30 seconds were taking between 2 & 5 minutes -- that's quite a slow down). If your disks never get more than about 85% full then it's not a problem. The HFS filesystem on the Mac is pretty good about keeping itself relatively fragment-free as long as it's not packed too full. If your drives are full -- and have been running at near-full capacity for some time then you might want to invest in a defrag utility. If not then don't waste your money on a defrag utility as it wont help to any noticeable extent.
Most Macs can do the spotlight index in "a few hours" depending on the speed of the machine and how much data has to be indexed. You have an older Mac -- so expect it to be on the slow side, but maybe that might mean (and I'm making this up) 5 hours (give or take)... but it certainly wont be the millions of hours. You might want to let it index overnight. If it's not done (or at least mostly done) by the following morning, then I'd say you probably have a performance problem with your machine (e.g. slow I/O to your disks).

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OK, so I thought I would post my solution to a stubborn indexing problem, for people who may have the same issue (and it does seem many people do).
Problem: Spotlight index was unreliable. In particular, Spotlight was terrible at indexing mail. It could not find the messages by content that it would find by searching the "from" field, nor could it find those reliably. Unusable.
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-- adding and removing any folder whatsoever in the Privacy preferences of Spotlight. The index would rebuild, but with the same problems.
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-- using Spotless
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2. Most importantly, a file named ".index.ready". This also, apparently, was an old legacy coming from Panther. I suspect this was the main problem for the lack of indexing in Mail.
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It was faster to remove the empty subfolders by hand, as they all had different names.
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Then I emptied the trash. For superstition, I restarted, and let the index be built again (that took about 5 hours in my computer, for an HD with about 60 gb occupied on it).
Now everything seems to work perfectly fine. I don't know whether this procedure can be shortened, but I do know that nothing else worked for me. I thought I would post it here as I spent sooo much time to solve this problem, and furthermore, I found that none of the suggested solutions would work.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lucabo! Using ideas from your post, I also (at least for now) solved my Mail indexing problem. One day (not even after an upgrade) Mail just quit finding messages by content, even when I had open a message with that content!
What I did:
-- In System Preferences, told Spotlight to index only Mail (I just use grep from a Terminal window for everything else!)
-- Ensured Mail app wasn't running
-- Backed up my Library/Mail folder to an external disk
-- Turned off indexing via Terminal (after sudo sh), with
mdutil -i off /Volumes/MyHardDisk
-- Deleted old files in my mailboxes (inside the whatever.mbox folders):
.index.ready
mbox
tableofcontents
content_index
It was clear that mbox, tableofcontents, and content_index were left over from a previous version of mail - they hadn't been accessed since I upgraded.
Note that I didn't delete the whatever.mbox folders (just the plain mbox file inside)!
-- Deleted (in Terminal) the .Spotlight-V100 in the root directory
-- Restarted my Mac. The indexing started itself. Since I had it set up to index only Mail, it took about 3-ish hours to finish (I have 100s of 1000s of emails in thousands of folders).
After the indexing finished, all the test searches that I tried worked. From now on I will always be suspicious if search doesn't find anything!
Also, I just checked - using the Spotlight field on the menu bar now works better too. When the Mail search problem showed up, I tried using the Spotlight field and the Spotlight window, but they would just flash up a few items, remove the list, over and over, sometimes with the beachball, then finally settle to an empty list. Now the Spotlight field seems to work.
I infer that the Spotlight index gets corrupted, and that the Spotlight code doesn't notice that it's reading junk from the index...
BTW, about the same time that search quit working, some emails in my Inboxes got highlighted with a dark brown background color. Have no idea why. They aren't marked as Junk (the junk messages have the text in the usual lighter brown). But, when I select a message with the dark brown highlight, mark it as junk, then mark it as not junk, the dark brown highlight goes away. On some occasions, just quitting Mail and restarting makes the dark brown highlights go away - but not always. Sigh... at least it's not a show stopper, even if it is ugly!
Thanks again, Lucabo, for your post!
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Just wondering if anyone knows how to encourage Spotlight to re-index? Just had my hard drive replaced as part of the recall, and now Spotlight wont index anything.
I've tried previous suggestions (adding and removing hard drive to privacy list, commands through terminal etc), but it's still not working. All the software is up to date (10.7.5).
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When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
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Step 2
Do the same with the search string "mds".

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If you are getting * Parsing file: '~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/AlbumData.xml'
ERROR: syntax error (<key>PhotoCount</key>) when you try to manually index your iPhoto library with mdimport, this will solve your problem!
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Most mail ends up in folders ON MY MAC.
Largest of those has about 1500 messages.
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It is about time I archive some of the older messages, and that may help, but it will take me a while to get to that, and then flush the messages.
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Did not seem to have the problem with Snow Leopard
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Hello everyone! I am having the same problem with my Spotlight not indexing anymore. In fact, when I use Spotlight, putting in a term that I KNOW a file exists for, it returns the error "nothing found." I used the following tip found on the site to manually turn on indexing (or so it said) but still no indexing. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do? It's really becoming a pain not having spotlight work. Thanks to everyone!! P DUB
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AFTER I completed these steps, I did get a message in TERMINAL that said "indexing enabled." which was encouraging---but spotlight has still not indexed!! Again, any ideas??
This tip is useful, but a way too complicated way to do this. A better and simpler solution is as follows:
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sudo rm /.metadataneverindex
It will ask you for your password. I have never seen this file, so you may get a "file not found" error - in which case move on to step 4 anyway.
4. Type the following in to the Terminal:
sudo mdutil -i on / 
5. Spotlight in the right corner of your server login should indicate it is indexing, and before long will start working.
I don't believe editing of hostconfig is required at all, and you don't need to do all this stuff with making invisible files visible since you are already in the Terminal anyway.)
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP!! P DUB OKC

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I upgraded my 3-1/2 year old black MacBook to OS X 10.6.7 the other day, and after I rebooted, Spotlight began indexing my drive and has been stuck at "Estimating index time" ever since.
Is this a known issue, or am I the only one?
I'm not sure why it started indexing again, but how can I get it to stop?

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Try to stop NAT, than start Setup Gateway Assistant again, may be help.
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I work in an environment where we plugin several different costumer harddrives all day long as part of our working process. Often only to extract one file from a given drive. Therefore its annoying that Spotlight automatically starts indexing these drives, because it slows down everthing, but also because our windows costumers suddenly see these weird mac files on their drives, that are invisible to the macuser. The Privacy setting is not of much use, as its impossible to add oru costumers drives to the list - we simply don't know the drive until we see it.
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The Privacy option is okay for private users, but at work we receive alot of harddrives from costumers and we simply cannot spend the extra time waiting for a drive to be indexed every time it is connected. That drive may never be connected again as it belongs to a costumer, and it is impossible for us to add drives to the Privacy pane, because we do not know they exist before we see them infront of us. The ption to disable all external drives from being indexed would be great. Or that the indexing can be stopped in the spotlight menu, or that the indexing will not start until 10 minutes after the drive has been mounted - and only if the drive is inactive.

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