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• #Metaz locks up my mac how to#

In Linux, you run "Locate" in the background, it creates the index overnight and you are done.

#Metaz locks up my mac how to#

When the CPU gets humming like that, it heats up and I think the lock up is a thermal issue on the processor.Īpple knows how to fix this but they just cannot bring themselves to give up Spotlight. You may have to reboot several times to get threads that are tied to old Spotlight indexing to shut down. Now with my machine sorted down "All My Files" which is a Spotlight folder on Finder is much smaller and indexing takes a reasonable amount of down time after boot. If I do a 'get info' on a track, then go to the file stats, iTunes displays the audio stats for the file.

I have noticed an anomaly with regards to the volume statistic in iTunes.

Stupid idea really and Spotlight has been criticized since Lion. Esteemed Audioholics: I will save you the backstory, but I have been quietly re-ripping a portion of my CD collection in to AIFF. But if you leave TimeMachine plugged in and on, then every day your Spotlight indexing grows exponentially. Then click the Advanced button and select the Proxies tab. Network If the preference pane is locked, click the lock icon in the lower left corner and enter your password to unlock it. D From the menu bar, select System Preferences. I put several large directories of mine into Privacy and Spotlight took less time to reindex. Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button. Anything you want to search a lot (songs, etc) you would still have to leave in Spotlight, but less used files (photos, etc) could be managed without Spotlight. The solution is to remove large numbers of files from your Spotlight paths by putting them in privacy.

You will still see huge chunks of your CPU burning up. You can tell if you run activity monitor with all your current applications closed. I had all of my 8GB memory gone when I was able to restart. What happens is that Spotlight chews up all your memory by running multiple threads at the same time.