SuperDuper 4.0 Beta
Our new trace capability showed quite clearly that the folder we were working on was
~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/search/Spotlight/SpotlightKnowledgeEvents/index.V2/journals/12/cs_defaultAnd that’s a folder I don’t have. When the user navigated to it at first, he said it was “empty”…which was weird. But later, he noticed that there was a spinner at the bottom of the Finder window. I asked him to wait, and >24 hours later, he finally got a list of files.
6,166,838 of them.
That’s right. 6,166,838 files. Generated by Spotlight. In one folder. Growing daily.
This version adds Tahoe compatibility, but not Liquid Glass:
There are some controls in SuperDuper (such as the Copy Now button with the snapshot selector) that don’t render well in the new, ass-ified theme. Apple’s own use of a similar control (the PDF selector in the Print menu) looks better when it’s not the default button (because the blobs aren’t weird and oversized), but you can see things going wrong when you click on the pop-up, where the highlight exceeds the button size, has a “waist”, etc.
Previously:
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Had an instance where spotlight and even Alfred would always lag about 15 seconds between me entering a search term and it showing the result, and other issues (Backblaze never fully completing a backup, DaisyDisk unable to ever fully index the disk) persisted.
Discovered there was a tmp folder (inside Safari, inside Containers) that had 9 million files in it. It just works!
So what’s an efficient way to find if my disk has any folder with more than say one million files in it?
