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  One thing I noticed with Mavericks is that every now and then Photoshop would get super slow.

  What was happening is that Spotlight (Search) was starting the process of indexing an external drive that I had connected. If I did a search, I could see at the bottom of the spotlight pop up pane a progress bar that said "Indexing EXTERNAL_HD" but it would never ever finish. I let it run overnight one night, still didn't finish.

  What I found online was that Mavericks can't index certain formats of drives. Mine was formatted to FAT32 or DOS or something, instead of Journaled Mac format that works with Mavericks. For some reason, it can't index the FAT32 drive, but it hasn't been programmed to ignore indexing those drives. To solve the problem I just set Spotlight to ignore that drive in the Prefs.

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  • interesting. good infoGnash
  • spotlight indexing only takes 1 major passmonospaced
  • Yeah, the indexing works perfectly if the hard drive is a compatible format. But, if it's FAT32 then it hangs up and will never index.nb
  • ... never stop.nb

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