[MlMt] Spotlight testing

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Sat Jun 27 14:17:54 EDT 2015


On 27 Jun 2015, at 19:43, Allie Martin wrote:

> After running the command which seemed to go OK, I attempted a 
> spotlight search. However, spotlight would not respond in that I am 
> able to enter a search string but no matches appear. This occurred 
> even for matches elsewhere on the system. Spotlight was not busy 
> indexing either.

My guess is that MailMate could not make Spotlight itself hang, but I 
might be wrong.

> So I opened Activity Monitor and saw that the mds process was 
> registered as using 100CPU although 100CPU was not really in use when 
> looking at the CPU load realtime monitoring. It seemed that Spotlight 
> had 'partially' crashed. So I killed the mds process which 
> auto-restarted. I could then do spotlight searches again. However, no 
> MailMate matches are showing up.

Did you enable the custom location in the General preferences pane of 
MailMate?

-- 
Benny


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