Spotlight estimates 400 hours remaining. iMac completely unresponsive.

So, I've been having all types of problems with my iMac and finally had to resort to a SuperDuper! restore. I cloned the iMac drive from the backup, rebooted, ran permissions, etc. So, I can understand that Spotlight would need to index my drive again. I started fine, saying 30m, then 45m, then 2h, then settled back to a reasonable 45m. Until it got about 2/3 of the way through. Then it was 2h, 3h, 5h, ... 24h, 25h, 48h, 72h, 81h, 93h, 99h and counting (445 hours now).
The biggest problem has been that the iMac is almost completely unresponsive during this time. Can someone point me in the direction of a log or something?
Message was edited by: Xian Rinpoche

Sounds like Spotlight is indexing both your Internal and External HD's, and you need to temporarily prevent Spotlight from searching one or both drives.
1. Go to: *System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy* and click the + box > select *External HD* from the list of Devices > click the Choose button.
2. Do the same and add the *Internal HD* to the Privacy list, at least temporarily until you get all the disk activity to settle down.
3. Then after your confident that the restore to the Internal HD is working properly and everything checks out. Then enable the Spotlight Search feature for the Internal HD by removing it from the list and let it complete before allowing it to Search the External HD
Note: normally I only allow Spotlight to Search my Internal HD and do not allow any searching of any my External HD's.
Dennis

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