Spotlight

I have a question about using Spotlight. I lost a document. It was misfiled, that is, I put it somewhere that seemed logical at the time but it turned out to be the wrong place. By enormouse luck, I found it again using Sopotlight, but I still don't know where it is in the computer. I wouild like to retrieve it and file it in the correct place, but I can't find it because the search results window just shows me that it's a PDF file, it doesn't show me where it is so I can move it. Is there some way I can find out where the file actually is? Thanks, Rick

Hello Niel, thank yoiu for replying. This control click method does not work for some reason, but in searching the boards, I did find a method that works from a poster named Aksha which is to select the document in the Spotlight result window, then hold down the optioon and command buttons simultaneously. The path appears below the image of the selected document. Rick

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    Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
    Identifier:      mds
    Version:         707.3
    Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
    Parent Process:  launchd [1]
    User ID:         0
    Date/Time:       2013-02-15 20:28:20.498 -0500
    OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
    Report Version:  10
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    Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000008
    VM Regions Near 0x8:
    -->
        __TEXT                 000000010514c000-000000010526c000 [ 1152K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
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    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
    2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
    3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
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    3   mds                                     0x0000000105172b82 0x10514c000 + 158594
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    6   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
    7   mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
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    10  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
    11  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
    12  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
    13  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
    14  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
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    19  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
    20  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
    21  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 11:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd027807a00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0fbe pwrite + 10
    1   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a6f02 _copyFile + 981
    2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a70f4 copyFile + 12
    3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010541213d db2_update_datastore_state + 163
    4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052dde36 _SIOpenIndex + 3670
    5   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e0ea8 SIOpenIndex + 282
    6   mds                                     0x0000000105182396 0x10514c000 + 222102
    7   mds                                     0x0000000105181854 0x10514c000 + 219220
    8   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
    9   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
    10  mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
    11  mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
    12  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
    13  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
    14  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
    15  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
    16  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
    17  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 12:
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
    2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
    3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 13:: Dispatch queue: <MDSDiskStore 0x7fd02300ee00 shutdown:NO got shutdown notification:NO>
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac0fbe pwrite + 10
    1   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a6f02 _copyFile + 981
    2   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001053a70f4 copyFile + 12
    3   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x000000010541213d db2_update_datastore_state + 163
    4   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052dde36 _SIOpenIndex + 3670
    5   com.apple.spotlight.index               0x00000001052e0ea8 SIOpenIndex + 282
    6   mds                                     0x0000000105182396 0x10514c000 + 222102
    7   mds                                     0x0000000105181854 0x10514c000 + 219220
    8   mds                                     0x0000000105173868 0x10514c000 + 161896
    9   mds                                     0x00000001051cd47e 0x10514c000 + 529534
    10  mds                                     0x00000001051b4962 0x10514c000 + 428386
    11  mds                                     0x00000001051b4b21 0x10514c000 + 428833
    12  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81b0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
    13  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
    14  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
    15  libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8d81c1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
    16  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cab _pthread_wqthread + 404
    17  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 14:
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
    2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
    3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 15:
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
    2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
    3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 16:
    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff86ac06d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10
    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029eec _pthread_workq_return + 25
    2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85029cb3 _pthread_wqthread + 412
    3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff85014171 start_wqthread + 13
    Thread 9 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
      rax: 0x00000000ffffffff  rbx: 0x0000000000000000  rcx: 0x0000000000000000  rdx: 0x0000000000000082
      rdi: 0x00007fd022829e00  rsi: 0x0000000000000001  rbp: 0x0000000105b6dfd0  rsp: 0x0000000105b6df50
       r8: 0x0000000000000024   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x00000001054b2ae8  r11: 0x00000001052ecf28
      r12: 0x0000000000000100  r13: 0x0000000000000001  r14: 0x00007fd022829e00  r15: 0x00007fd022848c00
      rip: 0x00000001052ecffc  rfl: 0x0000000000010246  cr2: 0x0000000000000008
    Logical CPU: 0
    External Modification Summary:
      Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
        task_for_pid: 1
        thread_create: 0
        thread_set_state: 0
      Calls made by this process:
        task_for_pid: 0
        thread_create: 0
        thread_set_state: 0
      Calls made by all processes on this machine:
        task_for_pid: 308
        thread_create: 0
        thread_set_state: 0
    VM Region Summary:
    ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=147.5M resident=115.1M(78%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=32.4M(22%)
    Writable regions: Total=174.9M written=6084K(3%) resident=7420K(4%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=167.7M(96%)
    REGION TYPE                      VIRTUAL
    ===========                      =======
    MALLOC                            127.8M
    MALLOC guard page                    80K
    Memory tag=241                      136K
    Memory tag=243 (reserved)          30.0M        reserved VM address space (unallocated)
    Memory tag=244                      320K
    STACK GUARD                        56.1M
    Stack                              16.1M
    VM_ALLOCATE                           8K
    __DATA                             12.1M
    __IMAGE                             528K
    __LINKEDIT                         53.7M
    __TEXT                             93.8M
    __UNICODE                           544K
    mapped file                        18.6M
    shared memory                       308K
    ===========                      =======
    TOTAL                             410.1M
    TOTAL, minus reserved VM space    380.1M

  • Spotlight reindexing drives when booting from Leopard to Tiger & vice versa

    Hi,
    I have two HDs, one with Leopard and the other with Tiger. Whenever I boot into the other HD I find that Spotlight re-indexes my two 750GB music & data drives which takes some time. Why is this? Do they use different versions of the index?
    It's a bit of a pain as I have to boot into both OS's every day and cannot use Spotlight while the indexing is running and it also slows the system down. I do not want to turn indexing off as I need it during my work.
    Any help/ideas?

    dickie001x wrote:
    Hi,
    I have two HDs, one with Leopard and the other with Tiger. Whenever I boot into the other HD I find that Spotlight re-indexes my two 750GB music & data drives which takes some time. Why is this? Do they use different versions of the index?
    yes, they do.
    It's a bit of a pain as I have to boot into both OS's every day and cannot use Spotlight while the indexing is running and it also slows the system down. I do not want to turn indexing off as I need it during my work.
    Any help/ideas?
    I don't think there is any way around this. may I ask why you have to use both tiger and leopard?
    you can try using some spotlight alternatives such as [EasyFind|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11706] when you are using one of the two OS ( either tiger or leopard) and spotlight for the other os.

  • Spotlight mds bringing down system, constantly leaking RAM & disk access

    Spotlight is going rampant here.
    The mds (metadata server, aka Spotlight) process is constantly accessing the disk and writing some data to it, filling it until there is no space left on the device. I cannot find out what file it is writing to. I've tried with fsevener which sadly didn't help.
    mds is also eating up all the CPU cycles it can get leaving my system fully loaded at all times.
    The mds process is also taking up inceasingly huge amounts of memory, causing permanent swapping of memory and bringing the system to a grinding halt. (Cache Hits go down below 1%, About 250.000 pageins happen per minute.) Memory Footprint is going up to several hundred MB or real RAM.
    $ vm_stat
    Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
    Pages free: 53166.
    Pages active: 275736.
    Pages inactive: 135633.
    Pages wired down: 59698.
    "Translation faults": 10217862.
    Pages copy-on-write: 136166.
    Pages zero filled: 5983710.
    Pages reactivated: 96772.
    Pageins: 1236330.
    Pageouts: 77113.
    Object cache: 24391 hits of 1183451 lookups (2% hit rate)
    (This is 95 minutes after reboot. Only running: Finder, Terminal, LaunchBar, Safari, Mail)
    This bahaviour goes until the disk is full and I get a "low disk space" warning. Then mds crashes, the system frees up the (temporary?) files written by the process and also frees the RAM taken up by it. Resulting in even more swapping, as the system tries to page-in other processes now. Subseqently the system launches a new mds process and the game starts over.
    Things I've tried to remedy:
    Rebuilt spotlight index several times. Including totally deleting the .Spotlight-V100 folder on local volumes. Doesn't help, takes about 16 to 20 hours to rebuild on my machine, so is not a thing one wants to just-try.
    Reinstalled 10.5.5 Combo Update, doesn't help. Privileges are repaired.
    Turn off spotlight completely: Does indeed stop the madness, but now I cannot find anything on my system. So this is not a solution at all.
    I've tried to keep the index small by excluding more and more stuff in the privacy settings of the Spotlight PreferencePane. This doesn't solve the problem either.
    My System:
    PowerBook G4 1.5GHz
    2GB RAM (Maximum) (Tested with ASD ok, Rember ok. Different RAM modules, also ok.)
    160GB HD (5GB free) (SMART ok, Blockscan ok, Filesystem ok, File privileges ok)
    Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33) including Security Update 2008/007 (no further updates available)
    Any help or suggestions are welcome. I'm happy to provide any further details you may need.
    Best regards
    Pepi

    J D McIninch wrote:
    This probably isn't Spotlight so much as one of the index plugins (mdimporters). Spotlight itself is very robust, however, all it takes is a single bad indexing plugin. MDS, basically, identifies a file type and loads in a list of plugins that are registered for that file type and executes a routine in the plugin to grab the metadata. If the plugin is improperly written, it can go haywire.
    Thanks for the suggestion, I already had checked that.
    I don't have any custom (read non-apple provided) Spotlight or QuickLook Plug-Ins on my system. So it is unlikely that it is related to a custom .mdimporter Plug-In. (Might be a buggy Apple one going rampant though.)
    I've personally found Spotlight to be quite a solid technology as well. Just the user interface provided by Apple is terrible and especially useless in the Finder (Taking away functionality, or making it horrific to use since Tiger… but that is another story.)
    What was the last application that you installed prior to it going crazy? Perhaps one of the last 2-3...
    Failing that, you can wipeout the metadata database for a Volume like so (from Terminal.app):
    *sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/yourvolumehere*
    ... or '/' in place of '/Volumes/...' for the local disk. You can turn off metadata indexing for a volume entirely like so:
    As I already said, rebuilding the index from scratch doesn't help. Completely deleting it, and rebuilding doesn't remedy as well.
    *sudo lsof | grep mdimporter*
    ... which might help you understand what's being used to index, and this:
    /System/Library/Spotlight/Chat.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Chat
    /System/Library/Spotlight/iCal.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/iCal /System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Mail
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    I ran a diff on my daily installation report and it gives me these app, that have been modified (Installed or updated in the last 31 days.)
    /Applications/Address Book.app
    /Applications/Adium.app
    /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app
    /Applications/Automator.app
    /Applications/Carbon Copy Cloner.app
    /Applications/Dashboard.app
    /Applications/Dictionary.app
    /Applications/DVD Player.app
    /Applications/Expose.app
    /Applications/Flip4Mac/WMV Player.app
    /Applications/iCal.app
    /Applications/iChat.app
    /Applications/iPhoto.app
    /Applications/iSync.app
    /Applications/iTunes.app
    /Applications/JollysFastVNC.app
    /Applications/Mail.app
    /Applications/OmniFocus.app
    /Applications/Photo Booth.app
    /Applications/Preview.app
    /Applications/Safari.app
    /Applications/Skitch.app
    /Applications/Spaces.app
    /Applications/StuffIt/StuffIt Expander.app
    /Applications/StuffIt 12/StuffIt Expander.app
    /Applications/Time Machine.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Bluetooth File Exchange.app
    /Applications/Utilities/ColorSync Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Directory.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Podcast Capture.app
    /Applications/Utilities/RAID Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Remote Install Mac OS X.app
    /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
    /Applications/Utilities/VoiceOver Utility.app
    /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Apple80211Agent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Automator Launcher.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Automator Runner.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/AVRCPAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Bluetooth Setup Assistant.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/BluetoothAudioAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/BluetoothUIServer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreServicesUIAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/File Sync.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/FileSyncAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Help Viewer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Kerberos.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/KerberosAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Network Diagnostics.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Network Setup Assistant.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/OBEXAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/ODSAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Problem Reporter.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app
    /System/Library/CoreServices/VerifiedDownloadAgent.app
    As you can see, there is nothing special in there as well. Just Apple Apps, and a few non-suspicious ones from my point of view.
    Tom in London wrote:
    rather than mess around with all of this and maybe fix it until the next Spotlight problem manifests itself, why not just disable Spotlight with Spotless, and use EasyFind instead? Easyfind finds everything, has more options, is reliable, and doesn't cause problems .... and doesn't eat up any space on your hard drive.
    ...and doesn't find what I need. Thanks for the suggestions though. As I said, totally disabling Spotlight is not an option. I'll stay far away from mysterious tools, as I know what I am doing in a Terminal.
    Best regards
    Pepi

  • Spotlight Indexing, Systemstats, Missing File, All After Mavericks Upgrade

    Dear Mac Support Communities,
    The upgrade to OS X 10.9.4 has crippled my computer.
    My main question is: should I reformat, or should I wait for a patch to come out to solve whatever is wrong with Mavericks? I explain below.
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    I have not been able to stop Spotlight's endless indexing. I have moved my hard drive and my Time Machine backup into the 'private' filter in 'Spotlight Preferences.' I have also tried the "sudo mdutil -a -i off" trick to stop indexing altogether. But Spotlight Indexing goes "off" and then automatically turns "on" in Terminal. Spotlight carries on, and the computer performance is choppy.
    I've run disk repair. First, I repaired permissions. Then I verified and attempted to repair the the hard drive. There is a missing file apparently, and I therefore must reformat. This is very first issue I've ever had with the hard drive since I bought the computer. Considering how awful Mavericks has been—I have been reading other Support Communities posts—I'm nervous about something going wrong, or that all these problems will persist after the reformat.
    All of this has occurred three days after my upgrade to to OS X 10.9.4. I have heard of numerous people having problems with Mavericks. All similar problems concerning missing files, haywire spotlight, systemstats devouring any remaining CPU power and memory space, and slow Time Machine back-ups.
    Anyone with the same problems? Care to theorize some solutions?
    I have a late 2008, 15inch MacBook Pro., 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, running OS X 10.9.4 (13E28).
    Cheers! I appreciate the help.

    Older Macs have more troubles under Mavericks. Considering the age of your Mac, it's not uncommon to start have hardware issues like drive failure.
    To repair the drive you must boot from the Recovery Drive.
    Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
    Run Repair Drive and Repair Permissions using Disk Utility in Recovery.***
    Next Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs following directions here This will serve two purposes. It will reset YOUR permissions. Not the same as Disk Utility reset permissions and it will cause Spotlight to re-index your drive when restarting.
    Restart
    Download and run the combo updater to refresh your OS X files.
    OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update (Combo)
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1755
    MORE INFO ON WHY RUNNING COMBO FIXES ISSUES
    Apple updates available from the Software Update application are incremental updates. Delta updates are also incremental updates and are available from Apple Downloads (software updates are generally smaller than delta updates). The Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted.
    Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're applying--no need to roll back or do a clean install.
    "Delta" updaters can only take you from one version to the next. For example: 10.9.3 to 10.9.4. If somehow the 10.9.3 is missing something it should have, and that something isn't changed between 10.9.3 and 10.9.4 it will still be stale after the delta update.
    ***If Disk Utility is unable to repair you will have to copy your data to an external drive first. Reformatting will erase the drive. You should have a backup regardless, if your data is important to you. Just like a seat belt and an air bag protect you in different ways when driving, you need both Time Machine and a clone for full protection. If you don't have an external drive for backup, I can give you some suggestions to get you started.
    Both of these applications can be used to create a clone.
    SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
    CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html

  • Random Beach-balling, Spotlight Problems and KPing

    Hi. K. So. My MacBook Pro seems to be encountering some problems. I've had two seemingly random Kernel Panics in the last week or so. One was while I was attempting to restart (I had clicked the "Yes I do want to restart" thing, it hung, then KP) and then one yesterday seemingly completely random. I was using a few programs, but nothing too strenuous.
    Now today I've gotten some fairly large hang ups. Firefox would beachball just loading a new web page (and since I'm on another computer next to this with little to no problems on the same net connection, it seems to be unrelated). For a while every program would hang up, to the point that I couldn't even open the Force Quit menu in the Finder.
    Spotlight also seems to be causing some problems. The past couple times I've tried to open it's hanged like crazy, to the point that I have to restart since I can't seem to force it to quit or anything of the sort.
    From what I've seen here it sounds like it would be the result of bad RAM, but I've had it as is for about 2 months now. There were no peripherals attached at any of these times, and I'm rarely running anything more exotic than Quicksilver, Firefox, MSN and xTorrent. If anyone wanted to walk me through how to access the panic.log that'd be great, maybe see if I can isolate things. I suspect if this keeps going I'm gonna have to take it in. I'm just avoiding Spotlight for now and backing up like mad. I thankfully have an "old" iMac G5 as backup. Still...I'm gonna be more than a little lost without my MBP. Any help/advice would be appreciated, or even just a sense of what I'm dealing with here and how long I can expect this to be out of commission.

    Tom,
    Just out of curiosity, if this is a C2D did you recently purchase and install the Pre 'N' Enabler patch? If yu didn't and your MBP isn't a C2D then using something like Onyx and cleaning upi the system as well as repairing disk permissions is the first thing I'd start with.
    HTH,
    Peter

  • Lost the ability to Spotlight Index my Time Machine drive

    I have an external, Firewire Time Machine drive which has been working without problems up to now. This evening I had a backup which hung up in the "preparing" stage (no file transfers begun yet). When I went to look in the console, there was a device error apparently related to trying to detect the powered-on state of my Time Machine drive. Apparently Time Machine did not handle this gracefully. In the course of trying to clear that I got into a state where I had to force shutdown of the system (holding the power button). (I accidentally clicked on the Time Machine icon which got hung up trying to display the histories, and left me with no access to the Desktop....)
    Things appeared to check out fine when I brought the machine back up (including Verify Disk of both the main and Time Machine drives and Repair Permissions of the main drive), and I finally did a Back Up Now in Time Machine. Due to the forced shut down, this became a "Deep Traversal" "preparing"stage. We'll I've seen those before, so no worries. However it lasted quite a bit longer than it should, at which point I noticed that Spotlight was indexing the Time Machine drive.
    So at this point I dragged the Time Machine into the Spotlight Privacy list. Rather than going away completely as I expected, the indexing of the Time Machine drive apparently went into some sort of clean-up phase that said it was still indexing for another 5 minutes (where it had, just prior, said it was going to be indexing for another 2 hours). The progress bar advanced normally as if it really did do 5 minutes more of indexing of the Time Machine drive. I've not seen this before
    When that finished, the backup which had been "preparing" during all of this also finished "preparing", transferred the several MB of files I expected, and finished normally. There were no errors in the console related to any of this.
    I rebooted, and once again did a pair of Disk Verifies and a Repair Permissions without problems. Opened up the console to track things, and poked around in the Time Machine. All was normal as far as I can tell. I also explored the Time Machine drive via the Finder. No problems.
    So I now went into Spotlight Privacy and removed the Time Machine drive from the privacy list expecting it to do the re-indexing I had stopped above. Spotlight started indexing the drive and a couple seconds later it stopped. I tried again -- into and out of privacy -- same result, a couple seconds of indexing and then it stopped.
    At this point I noticed the console was saying I had some bus errors in the I/O system, and that's what was terminating the md worker process and stopping the indexing.
    So I shut down, unplugged the Time Machine drive, and went through my maintenance ritual.
    I reset the PMU (this is a powerbook), reset PRAM, booted once in Safe Mode, booted normally, and ran Disk Utility again to Verify and Repair Permissions on the main hard drive. All of that went without a hitch. No failures, faults or funnies.
    I ran through the list of Applications I use, keeping an eye on the console. Again no problems.
    So I shut down, plugged the Time Machine drive back in and booted back up. I put the drive into Spotlight Privacy and turned off Time Machine backups. I then did a Verify Disk on that drive. No problems. I went into the Time Machine history display. No problems. And no problems looking at it in the Finder either. In particular, no bus errors or anything else funny in the console.
    I rebooted and did a new Back Up Now. It completed without problems. It was another Deep Traversal backup due to the Safe Mode Boot, but it went without a hitch. I rebooted and did another Back Up Now and got a normal speed incremental backup again without a hitch. The bottom line is that as far as I can see that Time Machine drive is working just fine.
    So I went into Spotlight Privacy and removed it from the list. Once again it started to index and stopped in a couple seconds. But this time there were NO Console error messages.
    I moved my main hard drive into Spotlight Privacy and removed it and it re-indexed from scratch just fine. Tried again with the Time Machine drive -- indexing stopped in a couple of seconds with no message in the Console. Spotlight searches find all the right stuff in the main drive. Spotlight and finder searches find only the top level Time Machine folders in the Time Machine drive.
    I also tried removing the Spotlight plist from my account's Library / Preferences. Spotlight created a new plist as expected but it still won't index that darned Time Machine drive.
    Apparently there is something left over from when I originally aborted the Spotlight indexing of that drive which is causing Spotlight to think it has no work to do. I'm not seeing any I/O errors of any sort any more (I think my maintenance pass took care of that) and Time Machine backups and history access continue to work just fine. And again, the Time Machine disk Verifies just fine.
    So I've run out of things to try.
    Is there a hidden file that I need to remove from that drive so that Spotlight no longer thinks it already has it indexed?
    --Bob

    Well unfortunately the command
    sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MyDiskName
    didn't help.
    The command itself echoed the name of the volume and then said "Indexing Enabled", which looked good. But the Spotlight indexing stopped after a couple seconds. The Console reported the Terminal sudo command and nothing else.
    I tried moving the Time Machine drive in and out of Spotlight privacy and once again the indexing started and stopped a couple seconds later with no Console messages.
    I then tried another trick I've learned to make Spotlight indexing happen which is to do a Finder search for, say, all folders (limited to the one drive) via Command-f and while Including both System Files and files both Visible and Invisible. And indeed Spotlight indexing started but again stopped a few seconds later.
    However, this time there were console messages and a crash report.
    The Console shows (with personal information x'ed out):
    12/31/07 1:30:38 PM mds[28] (/)(Error) IndexCI in openindex_filelazy:open file error: 2, 0.indexGroups
    12/31/07 1:30:41 PM ReportCrash[146] Formulating crash report for process mds[28]
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[28]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10ba40.mdworker[96]) Exited: Terminated
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1004a0.mdworker[108]) Exited: Terminated
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM mds[147] (/Volumes/Xxxxxx Time Machine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/80F3EC85-D77A-49FE-8BDC-BB7C3B3EC1CF)(E rror) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Unclean shutdown of /Volumes/Xxxxxx Time Machine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/80F3EC85-D77A-49FE-8BDC-BB7C3B3EC1CF/0. ; needs recovery
    12/31/07 1:30:43 PM ReportCrash[146] Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds2007-12-31-133038Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx-Computer.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
    The Crash Report reads as follows (again with personal information x'ed out):
    Process: mds [28]
    Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
    Identifier: mds
    Version: ??? (???)
    Code Type: PPC (Native)
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Date/Time: 2007-12-31 13:30:38.746 -0500
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
    Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000030
    Crashed Thread: 15
    Thread 0:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0000cfa0 0x1000 + 49056
    5 mds 0x00005580 0x1000 + 17792
    Thread 1:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 2:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 3:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 4:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 5:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 6:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda3ec _semwaitsignal + 12
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f16fa0 pthread_condwait + 1580
    2 mds 0x00009648 0x1000 + 34376
    3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 7:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ee0ea0 read$UNIX2003 + 12
    1 mds 0x000091b4 0x1000 + 33204
    Thread 8:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15438 kevent + 12
    1 mds 0x0007e584 0x1000 + 513412
    Thread 9:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 10:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 11:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 12:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 13:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00207f0c _handleExceptions + 208
    3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 14:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 15 Crashed:
    0 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x002046cc ContentIndexContainsContentByDocId + 204
    1 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00164358 QueryFunctionCallbackContext::findContent(db_obj*, __CFString const*, char*, int) + 244
    2 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001634d0 qpContentIndexMatch(datastoreinfo*, dblazyobj*, query_piece*, void*, int) + 328
    3 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0015587c comparefile_againsttree + 828
    4 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00155d30 comparefile_againsttree + 2032
    5 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00155d5c comparefile_againsttree + 2076
    6 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001e307c -[SISearchCtx isObjectInQuery:withQuery:shortcut:] + 144
    7 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001fa268 -[SISearchCtx_FSWalk performSearch:] + 996
    8 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001e2cbc -[SISearchCtx executeSearchContextCracked_2:jobNum:] + 136
    9 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00177e80 siwork_queueprocess + 752
    10 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0017811c sischeduleronce + 356
    11 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0017816c sischeduleronce + 436
    12 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001784f8 sischeduler_run_waitingtimeout + 640
    13 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0016529c runLoop + 72
    14 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00165308 query_runLoop + 32
    15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 15 crashed with PPC Thread State 32:
    srr0: 0x002046cc srr1: 0x0200f030 dar: 0x00000030 dsisr: 0x40000000
    r0: 0x002046a4 r1: 0xf09a4380 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x00000000
    r4: 0xf09a43c0 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x000074d1 r7: 0x00000000
    r8: 0x003fc080 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x44000444
    r12: 0x92ede094 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00373410
    r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00239e98 r18: 0x00000001 r19: 0x00227b9c
    r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00245554 r22: 0x00000001 r23: 0x00000001
    r24: 0x00000000 r25: 0x00000005 r26: 0x00000000 r27: 0x00000000
    r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x00000005 r30: 0xf09a43c0 r31: 0x00204610
    cr: 0x24000444 xer: 0x20000004 lr: 0x002046a4 ctr: 0x92ede094
    vrsave: 0x00000000
    Binary Images:
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    Especially important if I've put the item in the wrong folder and what to locate it without multi-steps. iMac OS X 10.5 was more useful.
    Old OSX Spotlight function automatically displayed path/location within the machine:  e.g. desktop/folder/sub-folder/item.
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    Press option-command and the path is displayed at the bottom of the little preview window.  Press command-return and the enclosing folder opens. 

  • 10.9.2 Spotlight - No 'Path' revealed in search results?

    After upgrade from 10.6.8 to 10.9.2, when using Spotlight, there is no 'Path' when highlighting a search result like in 10.6.8.
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    Another shortcut -- hold the Command key and click on the desired item, a Finder window opens with the item highlighted.

  • Problem with Spotlight and some system problem, Please HELP!

    I'm using iMac G5 with iSight (10.4.8)
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    Highly recommend that you read, reread and understand the consequences and then follow the directions as presented on X Lab
    http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
    That is before you follow some of the directions you find on some of these discussions. Even mine.

  • Spotlight hanging open/save dialog boxes (com.apple.metadata.mdserver)

    This has been crippling my mac for ages. Everytime I open or save a file, or try and get info from one in "columns view" finder or the window just hangs for about 5mins or so. Finally someone here suggested I check the console and I get a looping error message:
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    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    380: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
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    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
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    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
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    377: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    421: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
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    421: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    2006-06-03 23:53:36.351 System Preferences[421] Error: _MDSetExclusion returned -1
    421: Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004
    2006-06-03 23:53:46.352 System Preferences[421] Error: _MDSetExclusion returned -1
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    G5 Dual 2.5, 20 Apple Monitor   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    I found the answer myself - see this other thread I started to find out the cause. In short though, Spotlight itself is corrupt and was causing me no end of headaches so I disabled it using "spotless" a utility for just that purpose.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=467039

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