Reading this topic alongside
Spotlight not working any more ? …
My first installation of ZEVO Community Edition 1.1 was over a Ten's Complement beta – not to a clean OS. Some disks were used with prior betas and prior public releases of ZEVO.
That first installation, over the beta, was logged as an
install (not as an
upgrade) –
2012-09-15 around 06:20, and to an unreleased build of the OS.
A subsequent installation of ZEVO Community Edition 1.1 to the same build of the OS was logged as an
upgrade –
2012-09-19 around 23:12.
App Store offered the minor update to released Build 12C54 of OS X 10.8.2. I recall taking that option and as expected, I found the machine still with outdated Build 12A269 of Recovery OS 10.8 … so I took the opportunity to perform a full installation (for the build of Recovery OS to match the build of OS X). The current install.log.0.bz2 shows, filtered for 12C54:
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Sep 20 15:16:09 macbookpro08-centrim.home OSInstaller[325]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C54)
Sep 20 21:16:49 macbookpro08-centrim.home OSInstaller[325]: Installed "OS X" (10.8.2 (12C54))
– but I can't be sure about those (when I last checked, a few weeks or months ago, the times logged during full installation of an OS differed from local times by a few hours).
Focusing on ZEVO, on mds and on SpotlightFor what it's worth, I sensed a period of settling in. Maybe three or four days.
After those few days, passed: the eject/unmount behaviours outlined in this topic are, to me,
subtly different from the behaviours when previous builds of ZEVO were combined with previous builds of the OS. Generally better. Just slightly unpredictable.
mds behaviours in builds of Mountain Lion do seem generally less disruptive, and less overt, than in Lion. If Spotlight now is more self-healing than in the past, I reckon that its healing is quiet. In particular:
- I do not expect a visual indication of indexing (in the main Spotlight menu) during all periods of indexing for the file system
- I never expect an indication in the main Spotlight menu during the periods when indexing for Mail is outdated.