Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@jsonbecker How did you prevent the same problem from happening again when Spotlight rebuilt its index?"

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

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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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

Not sure where the space is being used. Quitting apps doesn’t help, but it comes back after I restart.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

Looks like the culprit is Spotlight. 2592 files in /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/6A539762-515B-41E7-80DC-AF1054850499/Cache/ up to 99 MB each.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

Just got the "Startup Disk Is Full" message, so back in a few after I restart.
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

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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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

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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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

Tentative solution: exclude the folder with most of my PDFs from Spotlight and then reset it (sudo mdutil -E /).
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Daniel Jalkut ‏@danielpunkass Jan 10

@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).
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John Siracusa ‏@siracusa Jan 10

@danielpunkass @mjtsai I frequently have mds/worked-related processes hang while trying to index and prevent volume eject or eat memory.
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Jason Becker ‏@jsonbecker Jan 10

@siracusa @danielpunkass I had the same problem due to spotlight that @mjtsai but ultimately had to nuke to solve it.
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@jsonbecker How did you prevent the same problem from happening again when Spotlight rebuilt its index?

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