Turns out that the files owned by user 1422 are all part of the HP printer drivers. This type of thing takes ages, especially if you have a large backup drive. The terminal can do that using the Unix find command: cd / With the clues in the first thread it seems like I need to find some files on my disk owned by user id 1422. I put 1422 into my search and found this thread: 27 inch iMac suddenly running very slowly where the person erases their disk and re-installs (yeah, that fixed it!). The user id causing trouble for me is 1422, which is outside of this range so although the remedy might be similar the origin of my problem is different. If you delete a user from your machine but leave lots of data lying around that is owned by that user then Yosemite seems to be having trouble and it is killing the Spotlight indexer. In the case of the poster this was 502 which is typical of the range Apple uses for real users you add to your machine from the control panel. Interestingly, from this thread it is clear that the last number in the log entry is a numeric user id. Clearly the person who posted this thread didn't think (or perhaps realise) that Spotlight had actually failed and was chasing up unexpected slowness. Check the webĪrmed with this information I was able to find a thread on the internet that clearly dealt with the problem I was having: pollute logs with errors.
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I have a feeling that things like new mail that arrives in your inbox gets indexed through some other mechanism and this can mask the fact that the long running indexer has not made a proper index of your hard disk. Interestingly, the problem had been going on for some time, when I searched back through my logs I realised that Spotlight had probably not been indexing properly for ages. True to its word, every 10 seconds I got a pair of lines like this in my console log. You don't need to be an expert to see that this is some type of unexpected condition and the second line tells me that the resulting process exited out straight away. Jan 12 23:06:45 LernaBookPro (): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Here's a sample: Jan 12 23:06:45 LernaBookPro (): Could not find uid associated with service: 0: Undefined error: 0 1422 Putting just 'md' in that box was enough to filter all the other stuff enabling me to see a constant stream of output from Spotlight's indexing application: mdworker. There's a handy search box (which doesn't use Spotlight!) at the top which filters the current day's logs. I don't mean the termainal, just the console utility app that spools system messages onto your screen and allows you to see what is happening on your Mac. In these situations it is always worth checking the console. I was still getting nowhere and now I'd lost the ability to search for anything. It should show the indexing progress-bar if it is indexing (but if it is complete you'll see nothing). The only way I could find was to press command-space and search for something. There's no simple control panel or dashboard view of the indexing process.
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The next step I took was to try to figure out how to see if Spotlight was actually doing any indexing at all. I just added my main drive to the list of places to exclude from spotlight searching and then after waiting a minute or two (for superstitious reasons) I removed that item again and sat back waiting for the inevitable slowdown as mdworker launches into life and starts scanning all my data. The first thing I tried was to simply force a re-index of my hard-disk. Hours passed and nothing seemed to happen. Outlook uses Apple's native spotlight search so, in theory, all I need to do is wait for spotlight to churn through the new material and I should be done.
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I recently imported a bunch of email into Outlook for OS X and was disappointed that I was unable to search its contents.