Spotlight won't stop indexing

[macswitcha2]

I've noticed that spotlight has been indexing my HD for a a couple of days now. What gives?

 

[mrapplegate]

I've noticed that spotlight has been indexing my HD for a a couple of days now. What gives?

Did you try turning it off and back on again?

 

[SawceBaws]

any news on this?

 

[sososowhat]

I'm having a similar problem (& posted a similar thread later Sunday, so far with no replies). For me it doesn't get beyond Estimating Time, and the system log shows mdworker crashing. Are your symptoms similar?

 

[Spider.Pig]

Same

I'm having the same problem. Its been happening for the past 10 days. I will be taking it to the Apple store next wednesday to sort this and a few other hardware problems.

 

[Spider.Pig]

I managed to solve this problem. I did a clean install of Lion and its stopped indexing. The First time I booted after installation the spotlight started indexing for a few minutes and then it finished it.

 

[3bs]

As far as I know after upgrading to 10.8.2 from 10.7.5 it finished indexing just fine but now from time to time whenever I go to do a spotlight search I notice it's indexing for a few seconds and stops. Any ideas why or how to stop this? It's been about a week since I upgraded.

 

[Philippe Carino]

As far as I know after upgrading to 10.8.2 from 10.7.5 it finished indexing just fine but now from time to time whenever I go to do a spotlight search I notice it's indexing for a few seconds and stops. Any ideas why or how to stop this? It's been about a week since I upgraded.

Do you mean upgrading to Mountain Lion solves this out?

Thanks in advance for your kind feedback.

Cheers,

Philippe

 

[3bs]

Do you mean upgrading to Mountain Lion solves this out?

Thanks in advance for your kind feedback.

Cheers,

Philippe

No it seems to have caused it in my case.