Spotlight never stops indexing?

I’ve heard a suggestion is to delete your index file and then let spotlight start a fresh index. Worth a shot. I’m not entirely sure where that is though…

yes perhaps that will help, I used terminal to kill it once and its been broken ever since.
some stupid blog told me it would have better battery life if I didnt use it. which theorieticaly makes sense, but constantly indexing really kills the battery.

now where is that file…

It is a hidden file at the root of each drive called .Spotlight-V100.

I would use something like Secrets to show hidden files and delete it that way. I wouldn’t try and do it from the Terminal unless you are very comfortable with the Terminal.

ok, its rebuilding, hopefully that works….

is it going to get corrupted again if i sleep my computer while its indexing? as in i need to pack up and move?

It should be cool. It might not be a bad idea to delete

/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist too.

ill try that, it still is broken.