Spotlight has been reindexing for about an hour. Should I panic???
Went the terminal route to reindex the hard drive. Everything seemed to work correctly but spotlight has been reindexing for at least an hour or more. The little dot in the middle of the magnifying glass continues to fade in and out as I recall and when hovering over it with the cursor it says indexing volumes. I did this about a year ago and I don't remember it taking this long. Is this normal? There's about 35-40 gigs of info on the computer. Will let it run overnight and then panic.
Can anyone enlighten me what to expect or what to do if it doesn't finish in a reasonable time.
Thanks and be well,
Elliot
Running 10.47 on an 1.8 iMac
When I reindex mine take an hour or so, 40-50GB on a 7200RPM notebook drive. I've had really good luck using the Spotlight Privay pane to reset indexing.
If it doesn't finish when you need it to, you should be able to just drag the hard drive into the Spotlight Preferences Privacy pane and reboot. Once you're logged back in, open the Privacy pane and remove the hard drive to restart indexing.
When I do it, I don't even need to reboot, but I'm suggesting it because there is already an index process running.
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