How to see what files spotlight is currently indexing
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Mar 15, 20267779 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Spotlight has been driving me nuts, over working my poor Harddrive so that my whole computer goes to a crawl. (CPU usage is still pretty low, then again I do have a core i7). I saw somewhere that there was a way to see what it was currently indexing but I don't remember where. Any ideas as to see w…
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You can use the fs_usage command to see the list of files visited by the mdworker process: sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker | egrep "open" Hope it helps!
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