Updating not reliable
Hi,
This file of mine I was working with the other day, when saving
the txt-file, then the Marked file was updated too, even by
Auto-Save.
So far so good.
Now with those files still open, no update, except for Refreshing CMD-R. Isn't that strange?
/ bw , Omar KN
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 22 Aug, 2012 08:24 PM
Hi Omar,
Silly question, but have you rebooted lately? If that doesn't fix it, 90% of the time the cause has ended up being a corrupt Spotlight index. You'll want to rebuild that index, which can take a while but has almost always resulted in fixing the update issues (plus it speeds up many areas of your system if the database is, in fact, corrupt).
Let me know if you need help doing the rebuild and keep me posted on whether or not it solves the issue.
2 Posted by Omar KN on 24 Aug, 2012 09:25 PM
Hi & good day Brett,
Yes I did a reboot and then I had this issue as described below "Marked Updating not reliable".
Now I did a new Spotlight-Indexing,
with a logg-out--logg-into the OS and everything is working nicely, thank you!
(1.)
I'm considering to make the Spotlight-Indexing a crone-job, any idea how this is done on bash OS 10.7.4?
(2.)
Also a bit weary of the Spotlight-Indexing job:
Is this the workflow I would have to go through every time I start a new textfile, because if it's new it hasn't been indexed?!
bw, Omar KN
Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 24 Aug, 2012 09:41 PM
Absolutely not. OS X generally does just fine keeping the Spotlight index up to date. I can't remember the last time I had to force-rebuild mine. Now that it's working, you should be good for a long while. If you see it start to happen again any time soon, you may want to run a disk repair and permissions repair and see if anything else is going on that would cause the index to corrupt.
Don't worry about making a cron or launchd job, mds (the Spotlight indexing util) should already be running in the background almost constantly.
Brett closed this discussion on 26 Aug, 2012 08:02 PM.