Questions tagged [mds]
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Why does MDS run wild in Mac OS X 10.6?
I've been having trouble with the MDS process running wild on my MacBook Pro 13". I've read on other support forums indicating that improperly formatted external drives can be an issue, but I have no drives connected. How can this problem be…
kubi
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How to see what files spotlight is currently indexing
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…
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MDS errors: "DiskStore: No block in wakeup" and "Ignored bogus fetch for MDSQueryWithBlockTask"
I've been getting tons of these entries in my system log. I can't find any indication of what they mean.
I assume it's a problem with spotlight somewhere, and I've rebuilt the spotlight indexes, but the error persists. Searching for the text of…
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How can I see the contents of an MDF file?
I have a file with .mdf extension, and a small .mds with the same name. What kind of format is MDF? How can I see the contents of this file?
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MDS Excel add-in multiple entities in one xls file
We have a couple of issues that might be bugs. At least we cannot find any fixes or help on the web.
We have an Excel sheet with a sheet per Entity. All data comes from the same MDS.
First problem
When we close the spreadsheet and open it again. We…
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MDS Worker Not Found
I've removed MDS worker (to get rid of spotlight). In my console it looks like launchd is trying to find it. Anyone know how I could stop launchd for searching for spotlight? (ha)
10-12-10 9:39:27 AM com.apple.launchd[1]…
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