mdimport seems to be the one...

thanks.



On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:


On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote:

When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself?
It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again.

Probably Spotlight doing it's thing. Fire up Activity monitor and watch what's at the top of the activity list during quiet times, nbet it's something called 'mdworker', which is the Spotlight maintenance process.
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