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GreatBear · 06-01-2009, 07:36 AM

Meant to post this earlier, but the answer to my prob was here in the forums the whole time. It was spotlight trying to index my Kindle every time I plugged in.

According to Scotty1024:

OK, I think I figured it out.

I've only hooked my Kindle 2 up via USB to a Mac Pro at home.

At Home I'm not running 10.4 or 10.5.

At Work I'm running 10.5.

I hooked up the Kindle 2 via USB to my Mac Pro at work and all hell broke loose.

The culprit is Spotlight. It is sucking down all your Kindle's bandwidth creating a Spotlight index of all the content on the Kindle. I'm researching how to club Spotlight over the head and keep it off the Kindle but for now it's definitely a problem (unless you aren't using 10.4 or 10.5).

UPDATE: Go to the Spotlight control panel's Privacy tab and drag the Kindle's icon from Finder into the panel. This will create a file on the Kindle that marks it as "Do No Spotlight This Device!" If you ever notice a directory on the Kindle named .Spotlight-V100 don't delete it! That's where the file is stored, in that directory.

Whole thread is here.

Thanks, Scotty1024!

06-01-2009, 07:36 AM	#4
GreatBear Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle, Sony Reader	Meant to post this earlier, but the answer to my prob was here in the forums the whole time. It was spotlight trying to index my Kindle every time I plugged in. According to Scotty1024: OK, I think I figured it out. I've only hooked my Kindle 2 up via USB to a Mac Pro at home. At Home I'm not running 10.4 or 10.5. At Work I'm running 10.5. I hooked up the Kindle 2 via USB to my Mac Pro at work and all hell broke loose. The culprit is Spotlight. It is sucking down all your Kindle's bandwidth creating a Spotlight index of all the content on the Kindle. I'm researching how to club Spotlight over the head and keep it off the Kindle but for now it's definitely a problem (unless you aren't using 10.4 or 10.5). UPDATE: Go to the Spotlight control panel's Privacy tab and drag the Kindle's icon from Finder into the panel. This will create a file on the Kindle that marks it as "Do No Spotlight This Device!" If you ever notice a directory on the Kindle named .Spotlight-V100 don't delete it! That's where the file is stored, in that directory. Whole thread is here. Thanks, Scotty1024!