Spotlight and iPod

06 June 2005 · 0 comments

I would plug in my iPod to update it and then find I couldn’t eject it, since it was “in use”. A few minutes later it would finally eject. This was getting quite annoying and I wondered if perhaps Spotlight was the application “using” my iPod. I really didn’t need the iPod indexed so went [...]

I would plug in my iPod to update it and then find I couldn’t eject it, since it was “in use”. A few minutes later it would finally eject.

This was getting quite annoying and I wondered if perhaps Spotlight was the application “using” my iPod. I really didn’t need the iPod indexed so went a-googling.

I found this at angel: May 2005 Archives

[I have resorted to:

sudo mdutil -i off -E /Volumes/volume name

/Volumes/volume name:
Volume index removed.
Indexing disabled for volume.

That seems to have stopped it. For now.]

My results weren’t the same, but then I didn’t have the iPod plugged in at the time. After plugging it in and entering the command I too got the message about the index being removed and indexing disabled.

My problem, however, isn’t solved. Even after disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod I do an update and still can’t remove the iPod because it’s “in use”. A look at Activity Monitor tells me that something called massStorage is busy working its way through my iPod. It seems suspiciously similar to what indexing might do. Sigh.

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