Spotlight /non-stop indexing for 2 days, Please Help!
Hello, I need help with the Lion as the beaset seems to be wild! I have been having little bugs since I installed Lion and most have been solvable by help from people like you and your on-line posts. My Lion has been indexing, first time, for the last day and a half! Can you PLEASE HELP me solve this problem as I am having trouble doind any other operation and cannot stop the indexing! I was thinbking about going back to Snow Leopard as I did not have any problems with that OS but I do like many of Lion's features. Any help would be apprecited!
Thank you in advance and enjoy life's ,moments as they are gifts.
,Joe
Do you use a Time Capsule? If so, connect to it with an Ethernet cable and reboot. Enter Time Machine and then exit. It should finish rebuiling the index in a couple of hours. If the problem persists, erase your Time Capsule.
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Step 1
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