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<blockquote data-quote="thorsonb" data-source="post: 1003568"><p><span style="color: Blue">i turned off my macbook and plugged out my USB harddrive (after having both the HDD and Macbook on for more than 5 days while i format and <a href="http://www.dban.org/" target="_blank">DBAN</a> my windows desktop)</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">And then i turned my macbook back on, it loads everything up as it should..</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">but when i try to use spotlight to start an application its tell me </span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">"<strong>its indexing, and it will take 10 minutes</strong>"</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">i am running OSX 10.5.8</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">So im just curious as to what this indexing actually is?</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">im new to mac, and a bit of a newbie to computer science.</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">thanx in advance</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thorsonb, post: 1003568"] [COLOR="Blue"]i turned off my macbook and plugged out my USB harddrive (after having both the HDD and Macbook on for more than 5 days while i format and [URL="http://www.dban.org/"]DBAN[/URL] my windows desktop) And then i turned my macbook back on, it loads everything up as it should.. but when i try to use spotlight to start an application its tell me "[B]its indexing, and it will take 10 minutes[/B]" i am running OSX 10.5.8 So im just curious as to what this indexing actually is? im new to mac, and a bit of a newbie to computer science. thanx in advance[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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