If you don’t ever use the search feature or just don’t like it, you can also disable Spotlight and all of its indexing. If Spotlight isn’t working, you can check out these Spotlight troubleshooting tips which will get you situated again. Next, use either the search box or browse the list. Just let the indexing complete, it generally takes between 15 and 45 minutes to complete. Launch Activity Monitor from /Applications/Utilities and make sure the drop-down menu at the top of the window says All Processes. You can configure always-on-top monitor windows, such as CPU History, to track your Mac’s resources. To view process activity, do any of the following: To see more information, select the process, then doubt-click it or click the Info button in the Activity Monitor window. You can think of the app as letting you see what’s going on behind your Mac’s desktop.
How long it takes to update the Spotlight index depends on a few variables, but mostly the size of your hard drive, the amount of data being indexed, major changes to the filesystem, and the time since last indexing. Activity Monitor also lets you see how each process or app is affecting your Mac’s CPU, RAM, energy, disk, and network usage. How long does mds & Spotlight take to finish indexing? Usually you will see the mds process in conjunction with mdworker, which is another part of Spotlight and it’s indexing engine.
You can then click on the Spotlight icon and you’ll see your main hard drive being indexed, with a progress bar and estimated time until completion: An easy way to identify that mds and Spotlight is indexing is to look at the Spotlight icon in the upper right corner of your menubar, when Spotlight is indexing the magnifying glass will have a dot in the center like so:
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