knewsom Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Hey all - my setup is in my sig... Spotlight's doing weird things, like not finding files that I KNOW are there - I can navigate to the files, and when I search for them IN THAT WINDOW, it finds them, but if I just do a search in general, it can't. For example, I can search for "plist", and it finds all sortsa {censored} - BBEdit files, old references from widgets from god knows when, but it doesn't point to a SINGLE THING in the Library or System directories. I BELIEVE this led to the FOLLOWING problem: I'm keeping my home folder on a separate partition, to help maintain the simplicity and integrity of my system, and to ease backup. Having just loaded all my old documents, pictures, music, and library files that Migration assistant didn't get (separate partition, had to abandon user folder stuff during MA), I ran repair permissions and rebooted. Upon reboot, SOME of the subfolders in my Home folder were there, and others had vanished - at least, according to the OS. When I MANUALLY navigated to the folder, there they were. However, when I clicked my home folder icon in the left panel, they were MISSING, and all the functions associated with them were missing! Even my bookmarks and history were gone in Safari! So I rebooted with Leo4All in the drive, opened Disk Utility, and zapped my system partition clean, then did a restore from the last disk image I had made before embarking on the madness that led to this.... when it finished, I clicked reboot, and..... nothing. I guess you can't restore from a disk image and have it not break the bootloader!? Also, at one point the Finder lost ALL keyboard function. System keyboard worked, and every other app was fine. Just Finder. And get this - the Logitech drivers for my mouse break Sleep mode! If I want my extra buttons, I can't use sleep! The thing is, I'm trying to evaluate whether this is viable for a longer term computing solution... I haven't had ANY crashes, ANY freezes, or ANY errors other than those above... Final Cut Pro works like a MAD DOG - I got it to upconvert anamorphic uncompressed SD video to FULL RASTER uncompressed HD with color corrector 3 way, RGB Balance, Gaussian Blur, and Fisheye all on the clip as unrendered filters, and it played full quality IN REALTIME WITHOUT DROPPING FRAMES. AND I DONT HAVE A RAID!!! Obviously, it cooks, and hasn't shown itself to be prone to crashing... however, I feel like these little bugs and glitches are going to nickel and dime me to death. any advice or commentary would be appreciated. -K Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'll answer with what I know: Logitech mouse drivers are incredibly poorly written on both Windows and Mac. They make nice mice, but write lousy drivers and software. Remove the Logitech stuff and install USB Overdrive. Its config options blow away the Logitech software anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-729994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Great. A hundred bux for a mouse that I need to pay 20 bux for software just to make it work. Guess who's gettin' a letter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Great. A hundred bux for a mouse that I need to pay 20 bux for software just to make it work. Guess who's gettin' a letter. This made me laugh inside thanks! As far as the home folder being located on another drive, this might not work too well. Not sure how familiar you are with terminal or any of the commands associated with it, but ~ refers to your home folder. Leopard spells this out as /users/<name> I don't think it plays well when your actually referencing different /Volumes. If you are concerned with backing up your home directory just use time machine to mirror it elsewhere. When you restore a backup image it will only boot if you install EFI again. There are lots of tutorials out there on how to do this its not that difficult. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 *bowing* I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy! eddie, thanks so much for the note on EFI, that's really helpful! As for using a different directory for the home folder, it's pretty easy to do - copy your folder where you want it, then right click on your user account under accounts in system prefs, then select a new location for your home folder. Shouldn't that change how leopard is referencing it? I know of a lot of other editors who do this to keep the system volume as clean and smooth-running as possible, but haven't heard of anything like this happening. Any clue as to what's going on with Spotlight, and why it won't find anything in my Library or System folders? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 *bowing* I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy! eddie, thanks so much for the note on EFI, that's really helpful! As for using a different directory for the home folder, it's pretty easy to do - copy your folder where you want it, then right click on your user account under accounts in system prefs, then select a new location for your home folder. Shouldn't that change how leopard is referencing it? I know of a lot of other editors who do this to keep the system volume as clean and smooth-running as possible, but haven't heard of anything like this happening. Any clue as to what's going on with Spotlight, and why it won't find anything in my Library or System folders? Spotlight by default will not show "hidden" system files which covers /Library /System /private /usr /bin /sbin and any others I may have left out. I believe you can change this behavior though, but I do not remember how anymore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 weird. On my G5, I never had any trouble searching for system or library files. I must've enabled that long long ago and utterly forgotten how! d'oh! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakine Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Spotlight by default will not show "hidden" system files which covers /Library /System /private /usr /bin /sbin and any others I may have left out. I believe you can change this behavior though, but I do not remember how anymore. I think you can change the behavior of Spotlight in "System Preferences" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Nope... at least, not that I'm seeing, sadly. I tried looking in the preferences in the Finder as well, but to no avail.solution to the finding of system files:http://libjack.com/2008/04/15/using-spotli...-files-leopard/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-730650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 well, I don't know exactly what the root of the problem was, but I've managed to replicate it - in stress-testing, I filled my boot drive with virtual memory, and needed to force-quit photoshop... but that didn't entirely work, so needed to reboot, but it hung on restart. on reboot, I had the same problem, but found out more about it: the OS made a duplicate invisible volume with a partial user folder! In the Finder, I couldn't find this other than by clicking on the home icon in the left column of a window. In trying to reset the location in system prefs and rebooting, I FUBAR'd the whole thing and needed to wipe my dive and reboot. Now I'm just using a single partition, no problems so far. Guess OSX just can't hang with a home folder in a different location, even thought it's an officially supported option. bummer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-731197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 fyi, you pretty much don't need any drivers for logitech mice in osx, try it without, most of your buttons will actually work. my logitech g5 mouse has the left/right buttons working as well as mouse wheel up/down and press working and also the thumb button and then 'speed' setting all without any drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-731234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 weird... only the left/right and scroll works on my MX1000 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102388-some-weird-quirks-spotlight-finder-and-more/#findComment-731256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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