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My old 2008 white MacBook running OS X 10.7.5 Lion now keeps running with the fan on loud because the drive keeps getting re-indexed for Spotlight. It only indexes for maybe 10-30 seconds, but it happens EVERY time I access anything, including just browsing a new web page. It's really irritating.
I've since just set the Spotlight Preferences to ignore my boot drive. Now the computer runs completely silently when surfing (unless I watch video or something).
This is my kitchen computer for quick surfing, emails, and recipes. It's a 13" 2008 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Penryn MacBook, with 4 GB RAM and aftermarket Kingston V+100 128 GB (which has the Toshiba firmware found in older Apple SSDs) with TRIM active. I checked Disk Utility and it says the drive is fine. There is about 45 GB free out of the 128 GB.
I haven't had any weird behaviour with the machine otherwise. Any solution to this? It didn't do this last year running the same OS version. I tried deleting the Spotlight index file and having the computer do a complete re-index, but the behaviour is the same after the re-index. I don't have this behaviour on my 2009 13" aluminum MacBook Pro running El Capitan either, and that also has a 3rd party SSD with TRIM active.
I've since just set the Spotlight Preferences to ignore my boot drive. Now the computer runs completely silently when surfing (unless I watch video or something).
This is my kitchen computer for quick surfing, emails, and recipes. It's a 13" 2008 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Penryn MacBook, with 4 GB RAM and aftermarket Kingston V+100 128 GB (which has the Toshiba firmware found in older Apple SSDs) with TRIM active. I checked Disk Utility and it says the drive is fine. There is about 45 GB free out of the 128 GB.
I haven't had any weird behaviour with the machine otherwise. Any solution to this? It didn't do this last year running the same OS version. I tried deleting the Spotlight index file and having the computer do a complete re-index, but the behaviour is the same after the re-index. I don't have this behaviour on my 2009 13" aluminum MacBook Pro running El Capitan either, and that also has a 3rd party SSD with TRIM active.
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