Does anyone know how to deal with frozen barber-pole Spotlight indexing in Mac OS X Leopard?
Miguel- Thanks, I try my hardest to not be the IT nerd everyone is afraid to ask questions of. It sounds like it might be an issue with file names or structure on your disk that have invalid paths etc. which can cause all sorts of weirdness when spotlight is trying to figure out their content. My next step would be to turn off spotlight on the drive, so it stops indexing (Open spotlight in system preferences, and click on the privacy tab, then drag “Macintosh HD” into it). It will ignore and not try to spotlight your hard drive. Spotlight wont work for searching file content, but you should still be able to find files by their name. Now you atleast has a system that isn’t continually trying to index itself. (but no indexing). I would then run DiskWarrior (http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/support.html) which will scan and verify that your directory information is intact, and replace it (not deleting files, just making sure the catalogue is redone properly) with a proper version. It is
