2nd January, 2026.
Right: I wrote, yesterday, that I was having issues with my Mac.
It was overheating, and freezing, when I had a lot of apps open: specifically, a lot of apps, when used with Pages, Apple’s word-processing software.
Or when I have a lot of Pages documents open, some thirty odd, when trying to record a QuickTime video: which normally isn’t an issue.
All I knew for sure … ?
Was Activity Monitor was telling me that processes called
corespotlightd and kernel_task were going into overdrive: using up a lot of RAM, and CPU resources, in the processes.I did a lot of asking around.
Apple’s support line wasn’t especially helpful.
Apple Communities were more useful.
They, and a confirmatory Google search, told me that
corespotlightd is the part of Spotlight, the Mac’s onboard search software, that corespotlightd is part of that … And that, if the files in
corespotlightd’s cache folders go bad … ?You end up with a look of overheating.
There were — or are, I should say — several solutions.
Most of which involve getting Spotlight to re-index — re-organise — the hard drives.
In my particular case?
That involved opening up the relevant cache folder,
~/Library/Metadata/Corespotlight, then emptying the contents of the folders within it.Then restarting my machine.
So far … ?
That seems to have solved the problem: although I’ve not used my machine at full pelt.
We’re going to have to see what happens, there.
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