I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by LeSaucy on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:47AM (#28355084)

Compound this issue with not being able to disable spotlight indexing of time machine backups on a NAS. Often I find mds is indexing for 4-6 hours at a time, using 20-40% cpu, with no way to stop or disable it (aside from disabling time machine). Its a real shame that Apple is allowing a growing list of paper cuts to fester on an otherwise pretty solid os (looking at you thunderbolt display kernel panics, unreliable external display support, etc).

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by xenophonf on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:42AM (#28355558)

Runaway CPU utilization, kernel panics, unreliable displays, and network storage problems are _not_ the hallmarks of "an otherwise pretty solid os".

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by LeSaucy on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:09PM (#28357146)

Care to mention any desktop os's that do not have these issues?

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by widowlark on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:34PM (#28357505)

no, they all have these problems and are all unreliable

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by DrBurrito on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:25AM (#28363973)

so `mdutil -i off -d /Volumes/<mymountedNASvolume>`does not work for you?

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by LeSaucy on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:55AM (#28379844)

Cool TIL about mdutil. I still cannot disable it as mdutil seems to be having trouble parsing the path to the share. Ive tried in bash/zsh/sh with all quoting/escaping patterns I can think of and I must be missing something.

(shows up in in `mdutil -s -a`)

  /Volumes/Backups of Saucy's MacBook Pro:
     Indexing enabled.

  sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Backups\ of\ Saucy's\ MacBook\ Pro
  Error: could not resolve path `/Volumes/Backups of Saucy’s MacBook Pro'.

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by Volt on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:41AM (#28491513)

Escape the quote. Or just put the path in double quotes.

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