mds_stores

Mac Pro 5,1 / Martin Lo´s Open Core 0.9.8 / Monterey 12.7.3 After upgrading to Monterey, after EVERY restart the mds_stores process (spotlight indexing) is running about 10-15 minutes, maxing out CPU completely and the fans running at highest speed. Does anyone know what´s the cause for this...

Hi, Here is the case: recently I serviced my MBP (mid 2015 15" Retina) for battery replacement & general cleanup. After that I the problem appeared - each time when I turn on/wake up MBP on batter (power cabble detached) mds_stores process takes 200-350% of CPU according to Activity Monitor...

Every single time when I restart my Mac mds_stores clogs up my system for some minutes, with Wifi and without, on battery or not. I don't know why but it has been like this since autumn and it won't stop. Is this normal? If not, what can I do to resolve this? Restarting the machine obviously...

I have an external Time Machine drive "Follow" which I do not want to be used by Spotlight. So I made sure it is in Spotlight's exclusion list: However I can still (even after hours) here the external disk churning away. Looking at the open files with Sloth (a GUI to `lsof`) I get: This...

Ok, so ever since I updated to the latest beta, it never stopped indexing and "photolibraryd" always runs in the background, console is posting errors every second as can be seen in the screenshot below. MacBook Pro 13" 2018 lasts only about 3 hours on battery doing mostly nothing or watching a...

This is a sort of 'to-whom-it-may-concern post, as I think I have identified the cause and solution to a problem that started with El Capitan on my machines (1). The symptoms are: UserEventAgent, cfprefsd, and mds_stores all use unusually high amounts of CPU time. There is a constant...