Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@danielpunkass @siracusa Thanks. I’m used to OmniDiskSweeper, so for now now I’m using @hboon’s tip of running it with sudo."

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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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John Siracusa ‏@siracusa Jan 10

@danielpunkass @mjtsai After my El Cap upgrade, Spotlight couldn't complete at all due to repeated crashes while trying to index.
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John Siracusa ‏@siracusa Jan 10

@danielpunkass @mjtsai I had to actually delete files to let it complete. (They were unimportant files.) Excluding seemed insufficient.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jan 10

@siracusa @danielpunkass That’s my worry, that excluding filters the search results rather than which files are indexed.
Daniel Jalkut ‏@danielpunkass Jan 10

@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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@danielpunkass @siracusa Thanks. I’m used to OmniDiskSweeper, so for now now I’m using @hboon’s tip of running it with sudo.

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