Spotlight woes

[willmacdonald]

Hi,

I have been using Espionage to encrypt my email on a snow leopard machine, I am using Mail.app

Nearly everyday Spotlight seems to be re-indexing my entire mail archive, ie it takes 5 minutes. Is this the fault of Espionage ? I never noticed this behaviour before using Espionage.

Will Macdonald

[greg]

Are you perchance using Leopard (10.5)? On Leopard (not Snow Leopard), Spotlight will re-import (not re-index) folders when they are unlocked, into its global Spotlight index so that the folder's contents are searchable. On 10.5 this takes longer than on 10.6, and the time it takes to re-import the folder's individual index into the global index varies depending on the folder's size and the overall performance of the computer.

[willmacdonald]

no I'm running latest snow leopard, and latest espionage.

Will

[willmacdonald]

here is a screen grab from Console

[greg]

[willmacdonald]

that seems to have fixed it, thanks.

Will