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Thanks for that tip. now that I got it to stop TRYING to index, maybe it will do this properly now. I have had a couple of iTunes updates recently. But I don't have any music at all on the Drobo. It's 98% photography image files & related stuff. No system files either.

does that mean any general search of your system ignores the Drobo? Mine finally stopped indexing after putting it in Privacy, but I haven't tested the Search.

After dragging into Privacy again & a double restart, seems to be holding with no indexing. Appreciate the help. What does this mean for file searches though on Drobo?

I dragged it into Privacy again. Restarted. MacPro got stuck on restart. Held power button for force quit. Restarted again. All seems well. And so far (less than 2 min) no indexing of Drobo. Fingers crossed. Does this mean when I do a "Find" it won't find files on the Drobo?? Or is Spotlight a...

I'm afraid that's what's going on - can't complete, can't stop.

No. No progress. The bar just says "Estimating index time..." for 24 hours. No actual progress shown. Tried Repair in Disk Utility first, all fine. Then Disk Warrior. Doing the file scan brought up maybe a dozen image files from 2 particular jobs that were irreparably damaged. I deleted them...

OK then. It's been indexing non stop since ~10:30 yesterday. A bit over 24 hours. Seems like that should be done by now. 1.31 TB of data (2.69 total capacity with single drive protection on) My guess is that it's not working..... Drobo suggests that it may be my SATA card? Maybe I should connect...

Thanks! I'll try it tomorrow & let you know.

I have a Drobo-S, hooked up via SATA with a Tempo SATA E2P (TSATAII-E2P) card. MacPro 2.8 gHz 8 core, 2008 tower. 10gb Ram, OS 10.6.6 4 out of 5 drive bays in use, single drive protection is on. The Drobo is constantly indexing. On for ~15 secs, then off for 10~15 sec, then on again. Drobo tech...