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Spotlight woes

Posted:
Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:59 pm
by 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
Re: Spotlight woes

Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:35 am
by 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.
Re: Spotlight woes

Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:14 am
by willmacdonald
no I'm running latest snow leopard, and latest espionage.
Will
Re: Spotlight woes

Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:49 am
by willmacdonald
here is a screen grab from Console
Re: Spotlight woes

Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:33 pm
by greg
Re: Spotlight woes

Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:35 pm
by willmacdonald
that seems to have fixed it, thanks.
Will