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#1
June 25th, 2008, 03:20 PM
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| Hard drive runs When I start up my imac core duo, it often runs for five up to five minutes after start up before settling down. the desktop has finished loading but the hard drive keeps working and slowing everything down. Any ideas?  |
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#2
June 25th, 2008, 04:08 PM
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| Have you recently installed OS X, or has OS X been on the machine for a while? More than likely, it's Spotlight indexing your hard drive (in the case of a recent OS X install)... you can tell this by opening Activity Monitor and looking for a process that's consuming CPU cycles called "mdimport".
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#3
June 25th, 2008, 06:24 PM
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| Another easy way to tell if your drive is indexing, is to look for the flashing little "dot" in the Spotlight search spyglass, top right of your menu bar. Click on this Spyglass and it will tell you if indexing is happening or not. jb.
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June 30th, 2008, 07:29 PM
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