MacOS “mds_stores” high CPU usage
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/15
I notices a high CPU usage, so searched for [Wayback] “mds_stores” – Google Search.
There I quickly found out this is the Spotlight indexer using a lot of CPU.
From that, it was easy to track down: I had added a second 4TB backup disk, but forgot to add it to the Spotlight indexing exclusion list, where you get by following these steps:
- Open “Preferences”
- Search for “Spotlight”
- Click on the “Privacy” button
- Click on the “+” button to add a new folder
- Browse to the top of the list inside your computer to find the volumes to exclude
Now it is on it:
Related: [WayBack] [FIXED] mds_stores Process Consuming High CPU Usage – MacMetric
–jeroen
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