Michael Tsai
Recurring problem since 10.11: in the morning, I'm down to 1.5 GB of free disk space. Over 100 GB not accounted for by OmniDiskSweeper.
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Just got the "Startup Disk Is Full" message, so back in a few after I restart.
The command I ended up using was "sudo du -mrd8 /.Spotlight-V100/|sort -n". After restart, still 60 GB of cache files, one that's 3.6 GB.
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Based on the contents of the txt files in the Spotlight cache, I think they were left by /System/Library/Spotlight/PDF.mdimporter
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Tentative solution: exclude the folder with most of my PDFs from Spotlight and then reset it (sudo mdutil -E /).
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@mjtsai Ugh, this kind of bug sucks. FWIW I just confirmed my whole .Spotlight-V100 "only" takes 6GB. (The volume that has my home folder). - View other replies
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@danielpunkass@mjtsai I frequently have mds/worked-related processes hang while trying to index and prevent volume eject or eat memory. - View other replies
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@danielpunkass@mjtsai After my El Cap upgrade, Spotlight couldn't complete at all due to repeated crashes while trying to index. -
@danielpunkass@mjtsai I had to actually delete files to let it complete. (They were unimportant files.) Excluding seemed insufficient. - View other replies
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@siracusa@danielpunkass That’s my worry, that excluding filters the search results rather than which files are indexed. -
@mjtsai@siracusa BTW DaisyDisk has a nice feature "Scan as Administrator" that may have surfaced this for you.pic.twitter.com/jKsNR0ySLW
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@mjtsai mdutil -E -
@craigmorgan I’ve already reset Spotlight several times recently because it wasn’t finding things, so apparently the cache issue recurs. :( -
@mjtsai bad spotlight importer in a recent app update maybe ... seen them spin in the past ...
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@mjtsai I don't see any sizes with that. Have you tried adding the disk to the Spotlight privacy tab, then removing it, to re-index?
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