I need a Mac Guru to help me out....

[southerngirlwriter]

I have a clamshell iBook, running OS 9.0. I need to index this freaking thing -- I've written two full-length novels since I indexed it last time. It tries to index every night at 9:00 PM, but I always stop it because I'm always busy.

How do I change the index time? I want to tell it "NOW" and then leave it on while I sleep tonight.

Thanks.

[Boom_cha]

1. Apparently what you need to do is

1. Launch Sherlock
2. Open the find menu
3. Click schedule
4. Reset the time

if this doesn't work, go to Mac Help on the Help menu (in Finder), search for "indexing", and follow the instructions

[southerngirlwriter]

2. Bless you, my child.

Your sensible instructions have been followed to the letter, and my problem is solved. Yay! :-D

[ronzo]

3. With OS9, I always have to screw around with the....

date/time when daylight savings comes or goes. My old beige G3 will spend about 36 hours trying to reindex. It's a fossil.

Anyone else have this prob with OS9?

[jmatthan]

4. Indexing time

is related to the size of the hard disk, how much is actually used on it, when it was last fully indexed and the system files in use. A 20 GB hard disk, fully utilised may take upto 30 hours to index while a 60 GB hard disk which is only 10 GB used may index in just 4 hours.

Also, there is a glitch in the Sherlock indexing programme as it may say it is indexing for as long as 60 hours, whereas if you stop the indexing and look at the data of the volume indexed you will find that over 99% of the volume is actually indexed and it is the remaining 1% which is causing the the hold up.

I found it best to optimise the hard disk first, defragment and then allow as much as 30 hours for the first indexing. Indexing will run in the background so you do not have to stop working on the computer. Thereafter, allow the indexing to be done when you are not using the computer. I set up for indexing daily between 1 am and it is usually 90% done by 4 am when I tune in to hear the Mike Malloy Talk Show on iTunes!!

On one occasion I let the indexing run for as much as 2 weeks and found that the actual indexing had only increased by less than 1% after the first 4 hours and I was finding all the data on a search. I concluded that it was only the system files (which are not being usually searched for) which takes so long to be indexed as the system is in use and the indexing is waiting for these files to be accessible to be indexed.

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[ronzo]

6. Good to know.

Thanks.

[pansypoo53219]

5. so far no problems with my time on my i-mac

and mine shuts off itself after it's done indexing. I just have to make the keyboard safe from my kittens and screwing it up.