hi all,
i've got an external USB drive connected and spotlight has been sitting for weeks or months 'estimating index time'. also i cannot remove the disk from the desktop - always get the message that it's busy even if it isn't (at least i'm not doing anything with it). it will only unmount when i shut down/restart.
i've read in the forums about trashing the index file from the command line or by removing indexing by adding it to the exception list. i tried the latter and the mac responded with the following error:
Privacy list error
The item coulnd't be added or removed because of an unknown error.
what's up with that? other than the weird indexing, the disk behaves normally. it's a 1Tb drive, about 2/3 full.
diskutility doesn't report anything wrong with the drive ('appears to be ok'). this is on a quadcore mac pro with 10.5.8. i have no other system to test it on.
any ideas?
thanks,
stefan
i've got an external USB drive connected and spotlight has been sitting for weeks or months 'estimating index time'. also i cannot remove the disk from the desktop - always get the message that it's busy even if it isn't (at least i'm not doing anything with it). it will only unmount when i shut down/restart.
i've read in the forums about trashing the index file from the command line or by removing indexing by adding it to the exception list. i tried the latter and the mac responded with the following error:
Privacy list error
The item coulnd't be added or removed because of an unknown error.
what's up with that? other than the weird indexing, the disk behaves normally. it's a 1Tb drive, about 2/3 full.
diskutility doesn't report anything wrong with the drive ('appears to be ok'). this is on a quadcore mac pro with 10.5.8. i have no other system to test it on.
any ideas?
thanks,
stefan
