Seemingly randomly, Spotlight indexing goes on and on…. seemingly forever. It was painful to hear the hard-drive cracking away in the background. A quick search on Apple’s suport forums gave me the solution – add your bootcamp drive / partition to the exclusion list of Spotlight (in System preferences). Indexing stopped instantly !
Tag: MacOS
Vista vs OSX upgrades
Every once in a while, planets align in such a way that computers start acting up, regardless of operating system. I have been fighting with my desktop PC for weeks to troubleshoot random shutdowns and blue screen issues. All that time, I was thinking about my MacBook Pro laptop and how stable it is… until I upgraded it to Leopard,…