Spotlight keeps corrupting

Hi — I've rebuilt my spotlight database several times — added my drive to exclude in sys prefs, closed, added back — rebuild.
However, this is not working. Everytime I do this, spotlight still hangs, does not show correct results, stalls, etc.
What's my next step?
d

HI Daniel,
Try deleting this file.
com.apple.Spotlight.plist
~/Library/Preferences. Move that file to the Trash and restart your Mac.
Also, repair disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

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Process: Spotlight [112]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight
Identifier: com.apple.spotlight
Version: 10.5 (398.25)
Build Info: Spotlight-3982500~5
Code Type: X86 (Native)
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Date/Time: 2009-07-21 07:34:25.152 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: EB91B485-2B7E-4815-8C88-6D6290DD86BB
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Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x00000000c0000023
Crashed Thread: 2
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0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94e2b0bf __CFStringHash + 879
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x95377ea0 -[NSCatalogColor hash] + 68
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x95327e92 attributeDictionaryHash + 220
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x914be162 hashProbe + 50
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8 com.apple.spotlight 0x0001cf89 0x1000 + 114569
9 com.apple.spotlight 0x000182d5 0x1000 + 94933
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x914b743a nsnotecallback + 106
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94df464a __CFXNotificationPost + 362
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94df4923 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 179
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x914e49cc -[NSNotificationCenter postNotification:] + 124
14 com.apple.Foundation 0x914b89bc __NSThreadPerformPerform + 476
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94e13595 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3141
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94e13c78 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96d5228c RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96d520a5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96d51f19 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x9533bd0d _DPSNextEvent + 657
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x9533b5c0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x953345fb -[NSApplication run] + 795
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x95301834 NSApplicationMain + 574
24 com.apple.spotlight 0x0000276e 0x1000 + 5998
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2 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x9714ea09 fefragmentthread + 54
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eax: 0x001f3210 ebx: 0xb00a0adc ecx: 0x9644a748 edx: 0xc0000003
edi: 0x1ae11ef0 esi: 0xa018cf40 ebp: 0xb00a0b48 esp: 0xb00a0a38
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x963ab688 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
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0x93e29000 - 0x93ed0feb com.apple.QD 3.11.56 (???) <a94d0f5438b730e88e5efdb233295c52> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ QD.framework/Versions/A/QD
0x93ed1000 - 0x93f08fff com.apple.SystemConfiguration 1.9.2 (1.9.2) <cfd64ded4da1064ce316243fd425d5a4> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x93f09000 - 0x93f7bfff com.apple.PDFKit 2.1.2 (2.1.2) /System/Library/Frameworks/Quartz.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PDFKit.framew ork/Versions/A/PDFKit
0x93fce000 - 0x9404bfeb com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 3.1.2 (3.1.2) <5a4e6329f8dbca5dcd70924525afd24a> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudio
0x94091000 - 0x940cbfe7 com.apple.coreui 1.2 (62) /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/CoreUI
0x940cc000 - 0x940dcfff com.apple.speech.synthesis.framework 3.7.1 (3.7.1) <7bd1ec22c47e62a11b34d7ba66606e2e> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ SpeechSynthesis.framework/Versions/A/SpeechSynthesis
0x94128000 - 0x941ccfec com.apple.CFNetwork 438.10 (438.12) <fde64bbb20532794396fb21911ccaa98> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetwo rk.framework/Versions/A/CFNetwork
0x941cd000 - 0x941dafe7 com.apple.opengl 1.5.10 (1.5.10) <5a2813f80c9441170cc1ab8a3dac5038> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
0x941db000 - 0x94208feb libvDSP.dylib ??? (???) <e89461ed03200fb3c0304e62e14a42ed> /SystemLibrary/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.fra mework/Versions/A/libvDSP.dylib
0x94209000 - 0x94211fff com.apple.DiskArbitration 2.2.1 (2.2.1) <d97688958e0b1fdcd4747088bdf1962a> /System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration
0x94212000 - 0x942faff3 com.apple.CoreData 100.2 (186.1) <8fb61e1714a4b8d587ce97605ad32547> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreData.framework/Versions/A/CoreData
0x942fb000 - 0x9447afff com.apple.AddressBook.framework 4.1.2 (700) <41a71b250286dc8d8bcee30784b894c8> /System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook
0x9447b000 - 0x944d4ff7 libGLU.dylib ??? (???) <a3b9be30100a25a6cd3ad109892f52b7> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGLU.dylib
0x944d5000 - 0x94531ff7 com.apple.htmlrendering 68 (1.1.3) <a9f65fa1c4668dc7c49af5bf7d5287ad> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HTMLRendering .framework/Versions/A/HTMLRendering
0x94532000 - 0x946bafe3 com.apple.JavaScriptCore 5530.19 (5530.19) <df70ffca834a208aae04aa045009a6e7> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore
0x946bb000 - 0x9476dffb libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib ??? (???) <9d714c92872a93dd127ea8556b2c8945> /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib
0x9476e000 - 0x9478bff7 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 1.3.1 (170.9) /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLook
0x9478c000 - 0x94793ff7 libCGATS.A.dylib ??? (???) <211348279493364e9920adc86484cedd> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libCGATS.A.dylib
0x94794000 - 0x9479bffe libbsm.dylib ??? (???) <5582985a86ea36504cca31788bccf963> /usr/lib/libbsm.dylib
0x9479c000 - 0x9479cff8 com.apple.ApplicationServices 34 (34) <e9cd7c823062c4382d89e3c9997f4739> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Application Services
0x94804000 - 0x94806ff5 libRadiance.dylib ??? (???) <6d980a95dd5a8448e2846568cc1458cd> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libRadiance.dylib
0x9483c000 - 0x94845fff com.apple.speech.recognition.framework 3.7.24 (3.7.24) <6a6518b392d3d41ace3dcea69d6809d9> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SpeechRecogni tion.framework/Versions/A/SpeechRecognition
0x94846000 - 0x94849fff com.apple.help 1.1 (36) <175489f8adf287b3ebd259362b0292c0> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Help.framewor k/Versions/A/Help
0x9484a000 - 0x94b70fe2 com.apple.QuickTime 7.6.2 (1327) <3754e41d846b7948f96c9ec4c690b520> /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime
0x94b71000 - 0x94b73fff com.apple.securityhi 3.0 (30817) <020419ad33b8638b174e1a472728a894> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SecurityHI.fr amework/Versions/A/SecurityHI
0x94b74000 - 0x94b89ffb com.apple.ImageCapture 5.0.2 (5.0.2) /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageCapture. framework/Versions/A/ImageCapture
0x94bfd000 - 0x94cc4ff2 com.apple.vImage 3.0 (3.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vImage.fr amework/Versions/A/vImage
0x94da0000 - 0x94ed3fef com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.5.6 (476.18) <2d52bab73660117571bd6486dc318f8e> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x94ed4000 - 0x94eecff7 com.apple.CoreVideo 1.6.0 (20.0) <dd60118bac9aefaf88d9ab44558f05c4> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreVideo.framework/Versions/ACoreVideo
0x94efa000 - 0x94f4bff7 com.apple.HIServices 1.7.0 (???) <74c3d19e3981d6999630ec516681f079> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ HIServices.framework/Versions/A/HIServices
0x94f64000 - 0x94f88fff libxslt.1.dylib ??? (???) <ec4c269815bab8e7211cb8fe9df3a9a3> /usr/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
0x94f89000 - 0x94f89ffb com.apple.installserver.framework 1.0 (8) /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/InstallServer.framework/Versions/A/InstallSer ver
0x94f8a000 - 0x95004ff8 com.apple.print.framework.PrintCore 5.5.4 (245.6) <03d0585059c20cb0bde5e000438c49e1> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/PrintCore
0x95005000 - 0x9500bfff com.apple.print.framework.Print 218.0.3 (220.2) <5b7f4ef7c2df36aff9605377775781e4> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Print.framewo rk/Versions/A/Print
0x9500c000 - 0x95089fef libvMisc.dylib ??? (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.fr amework/Versions/A/libvMisc.dylib
0x9508a000 - 0x9508bffc libffi.dylib ??? (???) <596e0dbf626b211741cecaa9698f271b> /usr/lib/libffi.dylib
0x952f5000 - 0x952fafff com.apple.DisplayServicesFW 2.0.2 (2.0.2) <b42b339d6b18d416b81c2d0eaa4f36b9> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DisplayServices.framework/Versions/A/DisplayS ervices
0x952fb000 - 0x95af9fef com.apple.AppKit 6.5.7 (949.46) <a80f8cb62f6bdcb3bed3c8675d55881d> /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit
0x95afa000 - 0x95c40ff7 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 2.0.4 (2.0.4) <c0d51a3b27fe6977d8db45c84c7ff46b> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
0x95c41000 - 0x95c5ffff libresolv.9.dylib ??? (???) <36c871d5da9b49bb5bcf0449833d1dc5> /usr/lib/libresolv.9.dylib
0x95c60000 - 0x95cf3fff com.apple.ink.framework 101.3 (86) <dfa9debcd7537849d228021d1d9c0f63> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Ink.framework /Versions/A/Ink
0x95cf4000 - 0x95cf4ffd com.apple.Accelerate 1.4.2 (Accelerate 1.4.2) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Accelerate
0x95cf5000 - 0x96395fe3 com.apple.CoreGraphics 1.409.3 (???) <25dceb14af3455b768f56e8765ecf3ca> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics
0x96396000 - 0x96476fff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) <bba0c22add60c7724e259ab28de8953e> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x96477000 - 0x96483ffe libGL.dylib ??? (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib
0x96d22000 - 0x9702afff com.apple.HIToolbox 1.5.5 (???) <b17766e3d8800a73f534c41f624f5ac4> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fra mework/Versions/A/HIToolbox
0x9702b000 - 0x97053ff7 com.apple.shortcut 1.0.1 (1.0) <131202e7766e327d02d55c0f5fc44ad7> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Shortcut.framework/Versions/A/Shortcut
0x97054000 - 0x97059fff com.apple.CommonPanels 1.2.4 (85) <3b64ef0de184d09c6f99a1a7e77e42be> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CommonPanels. framework/Versions/A/CommonPanels
0x9705a000 - 0x973f7fef com.apple.QuartzCore 1.5.8 (1.5.8) <a28fa54346a9f9d5b3bef076a1ee0fcf> /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore
0x9745f000 - 0x974b9ff7 com.apple.CoreText 2.0.4 (???) <f0b6c1d4f40bd21505097f0255abfead> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreText.framework/Versions/A/CoreText
0x974ba000 - 0x974d0fff com.apple.DictionaryServices 1.0.0 (1.0.0) <7e9ff586b5c9d02b09e2a5527d98524f> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Diction aryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices
0xba900000 - 0xba916fff libJapaneseConverter.dylib ??? (???) <79f7cbef6bc9f4c32a42d63c7332bf8e> /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libJapaneseConverter.dylib
0xfffe8000 - 0xfffebfff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1780 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
Any help would be appreciated

Remove com.apple.spotlight.plist from /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ and try again. If the problem persists, create a new admin user account, log into it, and try again.

Spotlight keeps reindexing due to motion5 ?

The last few days spotlights keeps indexing and hangs for hours (About 172 hours remaining for indexing my internal drive at one time).
Today i did everything (terminal, onyx, spotless etc) to clean things and that seemed to fix the problem. But now the indexing process hangs again (this time only 3 hours remaining, but it stays that way for many hours).
So i did a search for 'mdworker' in console and these errors came up quite a few times
mdworker32[622]
Error Error loading /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Motion Spotlight.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Motion Spotlight: dlopen(/Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Motion Spotlight.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Motion Spotlight, 262): no suitable image found.
Did find:/Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Motion Spotlight.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Motion Spotlight: mach-o, but wrong architecture
mdworker[1214] Warning CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
I'm using a macbook pro (2011) running 10.6.8
Any ideas what's wrong or can be done do fix this?
[s]

1- Run Disk Utility to "Repair" all drives. Don't bother with "Verify", waset of time.
2- Run Disk Warrior to rebuild directories on all drives.
It's likely a failiing drive if those two don't work.

Windows keeps corrupting WU stores

I'm not sure if somebody else had this problem before, but for me this keeps happening every couple of weeks. It happened for the third time recently.
Out of the blue on shutdown Windows says that it's installing updates with the typical counter of percent complete going up. This is weird for a couple of reasons. First, no new updates were available. Second, the updates are configured to be confirmed, so
they cannot be applied automatically. I have confirmed in the update history that indeed no update was installed at that time.
So, on the next startup Windows finishes installing fictional updates again with the typical counter going up until it reaches 100% and then the message is displayed that Windows Update Cleanup is taking place (or something to that tune - I don't remember the
exact message). This step takes considerable time, I'd say at least 15 minutes with heavy disk I/O. Then when I'm finally able to login the CPU spikes with TrustedInstaller hogging one CPU core. When TrustedInstaller finally is done with its thing (a long
time, 2 hours or so) I get a pop up balloon saying that new updates are available. The problem is the "new" updates are quite old and I'm positive that they were installed before. Previously it was .NET framework fixpak or something like that, and
this time they are some security updates, one of them even dating back to 2012. If I let the updates to be applied the same set of updates will be displayed again and again. There is no way of getting out of this vicious cycle.
Obviously, Windows Update stores keep getting corrupt, but my question is why Windows keeps doing this to itself?
The Windows application error log has lots of informational events 1001 WindowsWcpOtherFailure3 pointing to Windows::Rtl::SystemImplementation:: DirectRegistryProvider::SysOpenKey API call (I assume). There are more details in those events, but I don't think
those details are very relevant here.
Is there a way to restore just the WU stores from backup? What I've been doing so far was to restore the whole partition from the latest image (taken monthly) and then restore all the user data from backups, but this is extremely tedious and time consuming
process, and it seems to be only a temporary fix, as like I said this keeps happening every couple of weeks and there is no reason to believe that it won't happen again.
I'd appreciate all the suggestions as to why is this happening and how to fix the issue without resorting to complete partition restore and then restoring the user data.

Hi Andy,
Thanks for suggestions. I've already the latest update agent installed on my system. I've reset the WU components, but that didn't help. I'm getting error 80070002 (most of the time) and occasionally errors 80080005 and 80244010. When I checked the WindowsUpdateClient
log that you pointed me to I noticed the same error 80070002 first appearing on 1/25. That's about the time the corruption happened. Before that date there were only informational entries, no errors.
I ran System Update Readiness Tool and this is the log file:
Checking System Update Readiness.
Binary Version 6.1.7601.22471
Package Version 22.0
2014-02-01 14:23
Checking Windows Servicing Packages
Checking Package Manifests and Catalogs
Checking Package Watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Package Missing   0x80070002   Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~0.0.0.0   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0   Package
registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Package Missing   0x80070002   Microsoft-Windows-ServerCore-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~0.0.0.0   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0   Package
registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
Checking Component Watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smb10-minirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_089d1cba4bf65af1   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smb10-minirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_089d1cba4bf65af1   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smb20-minirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_0ad386cc8a4d8e62   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smb20-minirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_0ad386cc8a4d8e62   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smbminirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_ff89fe6651a51c8f   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
(f)   CBS Watchlist Component Missing   0x80070002   amd64_microsoft-windows-smbminirdr_31bf3856ad364e35_0.0.0.0_none_ff89fe6651a51c8f   Package_2_for_KB980232~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0
Package registry presence failed, possibly an orphaned package on package watchlist
Checking Packages
Checking Component Store
Summary:
Seconds executed: 2877
Found 8 errors
CBS Watchlist Package Missing Total count: 2
CBS Watchlist Component Missing Total count: 6
I also found DeepClean.log, which is I believe what Windows did to itself to break WU. It's way too big to paste the content here.
I believe that error 80070002 has nothing to do with temporary update files, because deleting them (part of the WU component reset) doesn't help. I did this several times. I need to somehow restore the missing packages/components listed in the log file.
Where are they normally stored?
Thanks.

.cab files keep corrupting in Windows XP

Hi all,
I'm 3 days into trying to install CS3 onto an Xp system so, if you can help me resolve this, you're a genius in my book. :-) I keep getting .cab file corruption errors. I think I've tried just about every trick I could find here in the forums (e.g., copying the disc's contents first to the hard drive, creating a new user account, using CS3 clean script and MS uninstall script, updating MS Installer, and all that jazz).
I eventually tried installing it on a different PC (Vista) and it installed fine there. I confirmed with 7-Zip's "Test Archive" feature on that system that the cab files on the disc were indeed fine and then copied all the setup files onto a flashdrive and brought that over to the Xp system. Strangely, no luck...it seems the .cab files get corrupted even on the flashdrive once they are added to the Xp system. About the only I haven't tried is updating to Xp SP3 (which I'm hesitant to do as I don't want to risk messing up my other programs that work fine with SP2, especially when I don't even know it will fix it). I read where one guy with a home network installed it using the CD-ROM from one system to install it onto the other system that he was having the install trouble with. He seemed to believe the problem was a combo hardware/software issue. I'm thinking of trying this but will need to get it setup. Do both PCs need to be running the same version of Windows? Any other possible fixes?

confuzeled wrote:
Any other possible fixes?
What Flash drives have you tried? Could well be that someting goes wrong when the files get written to them. Still, since it seems you started out with the original discs on the system, that doesn't seem to be the problem. More likely some security tool is scanning the files and damaging or Windows' own DEP has for some reason been set for cabinet files. So I'd definitely look into that. the version of Windows shouldn't matter. CS3 was developed at the high times of XP, so it primarily was made for that andjust the otehr way around, Vista compatibility is the bare minimum required.
Mylenium

Spotlight icons corrupted

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Recently the application icons in Spotlight's search window look odd.
There's no problem with the search itself, Spotlight hasn't slowed down, the indexing seems ok, in fact the whole system appears to be ok, let aside these odd looking icons.
Logging out or restarting the system works for a while, 3 Spotlight searches to be precisely, the icons are fine for a while, but the fourth search returns every application icon the way it is seen on the screenshots I made.
What I already tried:
A restart
Repaired permissions
Cleared cahes
Updated prebinding etc.
Update the whatis database
Cleaned font cache
Deleted Spotlight's preference file
and many many restarts
Again it works for a while, but the fourth Spotlight search will give these annoying corrupted icons.
Has anyone seen this before?
What may be the cause?
And more important: can it be fixed?
Thanks in advance!

Update:
I don't think Gimp and quartz vm have been the cause.
The so-called QCDialog.droplet and another droplet which uses the same icon CocoaDialog.droplet are part of an application called OMCEdit (On My Command).
With this app you can add contextual menu items from a pre-installed list or you can create and edit your own.
I only use two of them: "Send with Mail" and "Set Image as Desktop Picture".
I have used these contextual menu items only a few times and I don't know how these droplets relate to the contextual menu items and how they would relate to the spotlight index.
Out of curiosity I have set a couple of desktop pictures and send files with mail via these contextual menu items and did some spotlight searches and everything is fine (by now), but as soon these annoying icons take over all the other application icons I think I'll uninstall OMCEdit.
And in retrospect, I didn't have to start a thread: rebuilding the spotlight index was a pretty obvious first solution.
What made me doubt from doing this is that I didn't aspect this indexing to be so quick and casual, I thought it would take hours and hours.
Thanks for the help!

Spotlight Index Corrupted

Hello.
Upon indexing my external hard drives (all partitioned) under Leopard I discovered that more or less all the metadata in the external hard disks in question is corrupted beyond elementary usability. The file types (creator. etc.); names; previews; symlinks and whatnot - everything is in utter shambles.
PDFs, for instance, are recognised as Terminal commands - and by all means refuse to open in Preview (they do in Terminal.app and bear Terminal icons); as a file with a given name is launched, a totally different, sometimes of obscure type, opens; as I highlight a file in order to command-I it to set its application type, a dialogue box is launched asking me whether I like to change the extension, and so on. Changing the "open with" application yields no result, since the relevant application won't actually open the file; deleting file icons doesn't appear to work either. Both Finder and Spotlight have become as good as useless in file management (e.g., of files located on external hard drives) under Leopard.
These troubles persist under 10.5.1 (they started with the installation of 10.5.0).
I'm curious whether the issues referred to have been encountered by fellow 10.5(.x) users...
cordially,
Leo inter hominem

How are you doing a search while the index is still rebuilding? How are you reindexing for that matter? *sudo mdutil -E pathtovolume* will erase the index and a new one will be created.
Is the privacy tab of Spotlight excluding any directories that would have these files?

Spotlight keeps searching after finding everything?

Since Snow Leopard I'm using Spotlight as an application launcher (previously I used QuickSilver). I will, for instance, enter "act" in the Spotlight menu and find Activity Monitor, then launch it. I notice however that a lot of disk activity remains, and it turns out to be Spotlight still searching minutes after I exited the menu.
I already rebuilt the index with "sudo mdutil -Eav" but this has no effect.
I found this post that was never resolved...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1782035&tstart=3165
Is this a bug or a feature? I'd hate to have to manually quit the search by clearing the search box every time I launch an application...

I'm having the exact same problem and it seems to have started after upgrading to SL.
When using the Spotlight menu search, the activity indicator keeps spinning and the disk keeps chugging away even after all possible results have been exhausted.
As a test, I turned off all of the categories in the Spotlight Preferences except for Applications folder. Yet, if I search for "Firefox", it still keeps churning the disk and spinning the indicator after finding the result.
I did notice that it eventually stopped after about ten minutes, but a second search for the same term resulted in the same delay.
Odd.

Mail search not working + Spotlight keeps indexing

I have an old problem that has resurfaced after creating a new user on my Mac. Mail search brings no results and Spotlight is constantly indexing - day in, day out. It never seems to get there. I tried turning my hard drive to private in Spotlight settings and then taking it out. Previously Spotlight seemed to get bogged down with external drives now it's stuck indexing my Mac.
Any advice? Is there a way I get unstick this?

I can't believe that Apple have STILL not sorted this out. I haven't created a new user (so it's nothing to do with that), but Mail.app won't find anything when searching "Entire Message" in the current Mailbox or in "All Mailboxes". This has been ongoing since Leopard was first released, and we are now up to 10.5.8 without this being fixed.
Here are some of the reports:
Topic : Spotlight does not search Mail messages
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1366101
Topic : Search "Entire Message" returns "0 Found" in mailboxes
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1341832
Topic : Spotlight died on me
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1226645
Topic : I can't search through my inbox!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1387827
Topic : Leopard's Spotlight doesn't search Mail messages
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1219030
Topic : Mail Search
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1347387
Topic : Mail Won't Search
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1204827
Topic : Search does not work
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1254966
Topic : Mail search not working
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1289253
Topic : Unable to Search Mailbox
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1232504
Topic : Why is Search in Mail.app busted?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1403758
Topic : Mail Search comes up empty
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1378473
Topic : Search "Entire Message" not working with Smart Mailboxes?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6548355&#6548355
Topic : Mail searches yield no results! Smart mailboxes also yield no results!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1395508
Topic : 10.5.2 Mail.app search still not working (Entire Message)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389466

I was told at the apple store to open a new I-Tunes library and transfer the music from the old library to the new. He thinks there is a problem with the old library as it keeps corrupting the i-pod. Any ideas on how???

Was told by the person at the APple store today to open new library on I-tunes - he felt the current library has something wrong and that opening a new library and transferring the music to there would perhaps prevent the ipod from becoming corrupt. Any ideas how to do this???

Need more info, if you want better response.
What do you mean by corrupting the iPod?
What is wrong with your iPod?
Which version of iTunes are you using?
What is the iPod software version as shown in the iTunes summary page?
Have a nice day!

Spotlight keeps corrupting

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