Spotlight on spotlight

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:30:28 +0000

So it seems like Spotlight was the culprit in my problems with TimeMachine. Last night I re-enabled TimeMachine before I went to bed and it looks like it completed the first backup in about 2-2.5hrs and then did hourly backups as normal.

I read somewhere that TimeMachine depends on Spotlight but the evidence so far is that it doesn't because I was able to run it and browse the history okay. I didn't try searching from TimeMachine but, if it didn't work I'd understand why.

I'm going to leave TimeMachine enabled and Spotlight disabled until 10.5.1.

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Spotlight on spotlight