OS X V10.7 Lion :: It Is Not Indexing External Drives
Mar 29, 2012
Since I upgrade to Lion my external drives are not been indexed. I can't search anything there.Â
I already tryed:Â
mdutil -i on /Volume/NameOfExternalDriveÂ
andÂ
Add and remove my external drive from Spotlight Privacy tabÂ
Looks like indexing is active but I can find just a few files. Â
There are a way to force Lion to re-indexing thet drive? Better: without use terminal?
Info:
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 30, 2012
I am unable to find any results in spot light search from my external hard disk. is there any way to index the files on my external hard disk?Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 1, 2007
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my internal HD to my External 3 times a week. I have CCC set to erase the external, and copy everything over each time it backs up. The only problem im having is I can't stop Spotlight from indexing/searching my external drive. Adding the drive to the Privacy tab in the Spotlight Prefs works, but only until the next backup, after the next backup, and a restart Spotlight indexes my External drive again. It's annoying cause when I search for files I get 2 of everything. How the heck do I stop spotlight from searching my external?
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Feb 17, 2010
Whenever I add a new external drive (be it for regular use or just backup) the OS will read the entire drive to create an index. With smaller drives this was just an irritation of 20-30minutes ..but now I have a RAID5 with 4 2TB drives. This will be 4-5hours of non stop noise ?
Is there a better way to do this on a schedule ..say use the drive now and then set it for indexing over night ?
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Jun 23, 2009
right, i have a HFS formatted 500gb external drive which i use everyday, but today spotlight just keeps indexing it, it has a lot of media on it which i access daily so spotlight is needed to search it.
i mean its been indexing for a good 2 hours.
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Apr 23, 2012
What's the best way to mirror two external hard drives connected to two separate computers on a network? Can this be done with the built in file sharing capablities of Lion or do I need to use a utility such as Forklift?
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May 8, 2012
About 90% of the time, SD cards and external hard drives are not mounting as soon as they're connected (via USB or the SD card slot). I need to launch disk utility, and mount volumes manually (disk utility is detecting the devices). This has persisted through multiple 10.7.X updates.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
I have an external drive with a lot of music on it. I recently upgraded to Lion and now the spotlight will not search the disc.
There used to me a spotlight box in the corner of the drive window and now there isn't. The disc is half a tare and it's next to impossible to search manually. It is a Go Flex drive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 20" screen 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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May 20, 2012
i have tried going to the disk utilities and remounting my external drives and checked for an option in system prefs, but my external drives (both flash drive and hard drive) just won't show up on my desktop. My computer isn't even a week old!
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 20, 2010
I just added a 1 Terabyte drive for both backup and regular file storage. I partioned the drive so I would have a volume purely for backup. Backing up to the drive was taking forever, i searched and found index is the problem. I also found a couple ways to stop indexing. I utilized the touch function, but the .metadata_never_index doesn't seem to take at all. I have since utilized the sudo mdutil function for just the backup volume and this works. However..... Will this permanently leave indexing off on this volume? The drive backs up my laptop so it's disconnected frequently. Also does anyone have a guess to why the never index function didn't work? The syntax looked to be perfect.
touch /Volumes/Obsidianice Backup/.metadata_never_index
Whenever i ran the ls function
ls -a /Volumes/Obsidianice Backup
to check it it returned
No such file or directory
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Mar 30, 2012
My iMAC will not find my external hard drives.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 13, 2012
hey all, this has been really frustrating for me today. i want to be able to write to an external HDD that's formatted in NTFS. today i find out it isn't possible to write to this file system on a Mac and that on FAT32 it is possible. however, FAT32 can't address files larger than 4GB so this hurts me a lot. are there any other file systems that'll allow me to read and write from a Mac? my goal was to use freeNAS to build a NAS with an old tower and connect my external hard drives to it, but if i can't write to them this may not be possible.Â
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Jun 4, 2012
I want to install Lion on my iMac. It is currently running version 10.6.8. I have 3 external hard drives connected to the iMac. Should I disconnect them before installing Lion?
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iPad 2, iOS 5
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Feb 22, 2012
Can I include external drives to be backed up using Time Machine? Not only do I want to back up my IMac, but I have several extenal drives for one iPhoto, one iTunes and one for other files & documents. How do I know if they are included in the backup process?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Apr 17, 2012
Is there a CLI command that will list which apps are using which external harddrives?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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May 12, 2012
i have this strange issue that occured just out of nowhere without me (knowingly) having contributed anything to it.yesterday i launched my iMac and my external firewire drive wasn't showing up in neither the finder nor on the desktop. i instantly thought about a hard drive crash, but soon tried other things to evaluate (or not) my guess.Â
for instance, i unplugged the drive waited a few minutes before i plugged it in again. since this iomega drive is also equipped with a regular usb port i also switched cables and tried connecting it via the iMac usb sockets as well as via an usb hub without any luck. the drive still won't show up. so i launched the Disk Utility, to see if the drive needs some checking/repairing, but to my surprise it wasn't showing in Disk Utility either.Â
thus far i only considered this to be an issue with only this particular external drive, but when i eventually switched on a 2nd external drive (this time an usb drive i use for Time Machine) that drive also refused to show up in either the Finder or the Disk Utility app.Â
curious as i was, i then fired up a 3rd and 4th external drive and now had all 4 drives running at the same time. none of which were showing up, just as if they weren't even connected with the iMac.Â
this strikes me as more than odd. i've heard about hard drive failures and crashes. they just occur over time. maybe and under some very strange coincidences it is possible that two external hard drives quit their jobs at the very same time, but seriously .... 4 of them?? i hardly think so.Â
well, maybe it's the iMac's usb/firewire controller that's causing the trouble, i thought. but then again, my other connected devices (iPhone, iPad, Printer, Scanner, eyeTV) are functioning and get detected just fine as far as i can tell.Â
i have no idea what's going on. i dismiss the idea of 4 external drives having crashed all at the same time just as much as i don't think that the iMac's usb/firewire controller has got any issues. re-formatting any of the 4 drives is out of the question and even if i'd consider such desperate measures, the Disk Utility wouldn't let me re-format anything anyhow, because the drives aren't listed there. i wish i could just use my Time Machine to resolve the issue but, as i mentioned earlier, i can't access the Time Machine because it also won't show up.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 26, 2012
Is there any way to set Spotlight indexing to only work at midnight or some other time? The amount of indexing that goes on constantly is slowing down my work time and finder access during the day.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 6 gigs RAM
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Apr 13, 2012
I've update my hdd from my macbook pro 13" mid 2010 to an ssd. I've done a fresh install and imported all my apps and settings from my old hdd. Since that time I have 2 problems: when my mbp goes out of battery it shut down instead of hibernating and when I turn it on my finder is indexing my home folder! I have hibernate mode set to 3 as normal.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 26, 2012
I'm using a my book western digital nas drive for my time machine backups and time machine has been stuck on indexing for days. I saw some solutions in other threads, however on the my book the backup partition of the drive is private, locked, or hidden? and I have no idea how to get into that area of the drive if I was going to apply any of the solution I have previously seen...
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 2, 2014
Time Machine says it is indexing the backup and it has been going on for hours. How long will this take with a 2T HD?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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Apr 16, 2012
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What backup solutions are available for backing up two drives on to one backup drive without causing any confusion?
My setup consists of:
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I'm running MacOS 10.4.11, so please don't suggest Time Machine.
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Oct 20, 2009
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OSX 10.4.11
PowerPC G5 dual 2.7
Finder 10.4.7
2 internal drives
1 LaCie 1TB Raid (formated JBOD)
1 CalDigit 1TB Raid
250 GB External
150 GB External
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I have a few external drives for my Macbook Pro. One of the drives is an Iomega MaxMini with USB ports on the back to add drives.
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Is there a way I can put the drives in a folder of some kind that I can just eject and make the desktop look less cluttered?
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Some details about my setup:
Mac OS X 10.5.6
PowerPc G5
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