OS X 10.7.5 Lion MacBook - Spotlight keeps re-indexing all the time

[Eug]

My old 2008 white MacBook running OS X 10.7.5 Lion now keeps running with the fan on loud because the drive keeps getting re-indexed for Spotlight. It only indexes for maybe 10-30 seconds, but it happens EVERY time I access anything, including just browsing a new web page. It's really irritating.

I've since just set the Spotlight Preferences to ignore my boot drive. Now the computer runs completely silently when surfing (unless I watch video or something).

This is my kitchen computer for quick surfing, emails, and recipes. It's a 13" 2008 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Penryn MacBook, with 4 GB RAM and aftermarket Kingston V+100 128 GB (which has the Toshiba firmware found in older Apple SSDs) with TRIM active. I checked Disk Utility and it says the drive is fine. There is about 45 GB free out of the 128 GB.

I haven't had any weird behaviour with the machine otherwise. Any solution to this? It didn't do this last year running the same OS version. I tried deleting the Spotlight index file and having the computer do a complete re-index, but the behaviour is the same after the re-index. I don't have this behaviour on my 2009 13" aluminum MacBook Pro running El Capitan either, and that also has a 3rd party SSD with TRIM active.

 

[rugby]

Update the OS.

 

[Eug]

Update the OS.

Can't. That's the latest OS for it. I may have to try a complete reformat to see if that changes anything, unless someone can post an easier solution (aside from disabling Spotlight completely as I have done for the time being).

 

[rugby]

Can't. That's the latest OS for it. I may have to try a complete reformat to see if that changes anything, unless someone can post an easier solution (aside from disabling Spotlight completely as I have done for the time being).

Ugh, then yeah I would wipe it.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...p-reindexing-my-system-after-updating-to-lion

Several things to try in this thread. I think I once had the same problem as "patrix". It was a 3rd party program that was crashing and triggering the re-index. Of course this was years ago so I don't remember the details, but I do remember spotlight running all the time and taking up CPU time. I assume you've read through your system logs?